cool packaging features request

[Christophe Romain]

Hi list

Way we track on that thread cool features we want to have for erlang
packaging ?

i personally often use export/installer, which produce a self
extractable standalone erlang+application. but i'd like few other ones that i
did not had time to work on.

* export/dpkg produce a Debian package to install lib into /usr/lib/erlang/lib
* export/rpm same thing for RedHat and co
* export/pkgsrc produce a pkgsrc spec for the given package

also, some other cool features, any thoughts ?

* cross/win32 crossbuild for windows
* make use of reltool somehow

other idea ?

[Eric Merritt]

In the past, I have thought about these more as build tasks then
anything else. I actually have plans to incorporate most of this
functionality into sinan. For example, I have just finished
integrating functionality similar to reltool in sinan and have
somewhat midterm plans for dpkg/rpm/pkgsrc etc.

I really do think of the release building as a build time activity.
However, the package conversion I am much more ambivalent about. If it
ends up in the 'package manager' I am completely cool with that and
will just front it with sinan :P