expm and hex

[Dave Thomas]

Currently, the Programming Elixir book uses expm to discover packages (in particular, httpotion, which I need for the Project chapter).

Should I switch the book to use hex?

Dave

[José Valim]

Yes, definitely!​ expm is not maintained anymore, afaik.

[Dave Thomas]

So is there any move to get package maintainers to switch? For example, httpoption is not in hex yet.

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:19 AM, José Valim <jose....@plataformatec.com.br> wrote:

Yes, definitely!​ expm is not maintained anymore, afaik.

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[José Valim]

I've opened an issue there asking them to move: https://github.com/myfreeweb/httpotion/issues/33

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[Levi Aul]

Speaking as the person who inherited the server it's running on: expm.co is definitely not maintained any more. (On a tangent: what should I do with it? I could potentially redirect the domain, add a notice to the page telling people it's deprecated, etc.)

[Alexei Sholik]

The best way to gracefully migrate to hex.pm would be to reach out to the authors of the packages currently hosted on expm.co and ask them to move over to hex.pm.

Two problems:

  1) who will do the reaching out part?

  2) what's the state of Erlang support on hex.pm? There are some Erlang projects hosted on expm.co and so far there is no straightforward way for them to be on hex.pm

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Levi Aul <le...@leviaul.com> wrote:

Speaking as the person who inherited the server it's running on: expm.co is definitely not maintained any more. (On a tangent: what should I do with it? I could potentially redirect the domain, add a notice to the page telling people it's deprecated, etc.)

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[Eric Meadows-Jönsson]

I've added docs to hex.pm on how to publish erlang packages. Work is under way to have a solution that does not require elixir installed to publish and fetch packages.

Eric Meadows-Jönsson

[Alexei Sholik]

Looks great, Eric! What would be an example package.exs file? Does it need to be the whole project definition or just package function?

In other words, what does a minimal package.exs looks like for an Erlang library author who wants to publish to hex.pm?

[José Valim]

Awesome! Here is a sample one:

https://github.com/devinus/poolboy/blob/master/package.exs

But I agree with Alexei that we should probably add it as an example. Maybe publishing for Erlang should be its own section / page.

José Valim

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Founder and Lead Developer

[Eric Meadows-Jönsson]

I added an example package.exs file to the publishing instructions. Please check https://hex.pm/docs/publish. If you think the docs can be improved feel free to reply here or send a PR to https://github.com/ericmj/hex_web.

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