From owner-freebsd-erlang@freebsd.org Sun Jul 29 12:35:06 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-erlang@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A01C1056433 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:35:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Received: from msa1.earth.yoonka.com (yoonka.com [88.98.225.149]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "msa1.earth.yoonka.com", Issuer "msa1.earth.yoonka.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C4C517FB34 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:35:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Received: from crayon2.yoonka.com (crayon2.yoonka.com [10.70.7.20]) (authenticated bits=0) by msa1.earth.yoonka.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id w6TCZ4T9092803 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:35:04 GMT (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Subject: Re: erlang-runtime package To: freebsd-erlang@freebsd.org References: <1532850061.1078843.1456244544.2D057AF0@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Grzegorz Junka Message-ID: Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:35:04 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1532850061.1078843.1456244544.2D057AF0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-GB-large X-BeenThere: freebsd-erlang@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Support of Erlang-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:35:06 -0000 On 29/07/2018 07:41, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2018, at 00:47, Grzegorz Junka wrote: >> Hi, What's the difference between erlang or erlang-wx and > erlang base is whatever the current default erlang is. > > Erlang- runtime-* are older or newer releases to allow compatibility > for various applications just like we have multiple php and llvm > versions in ports. > WX is GUI bindings to wxwidgets obviously it pulls in X and gtk as well > which isn’t necessaryfor servers. By way of example, erlang has a nice > GUI tool called observer that needs these bindings. > All of them support make options if you want to build with wx or dtrace > etc so you can have whatever you want. > Most of the erlang-dependent ports require a minimum of the base erlang > port but can be built against newer releases. > A+ Thanks Dave, Does it mean that packages erlang and erlang-runtime19 are equivalent (at lest for now while erlang defaults to 19)? When the default erlang version is upgraded to the next erlang-runtime version? Can I use erlang-runtime to build with wx enabled (i.e. erlang-runtime21 for that matter)? GrzegorzJ