Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:53:09 +1000 From: Dewayne <dewayne.geraghty@heuristicsystems.com.au> To: mike.jakubik@swiftsmsgateway.com, Dave Cottlehuber <dch@FreeBSD.org> Cc: erlang <erlang@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: heads up - BEAM ports purge in PR263694 Message-ID: <5a6de14d-e5b6-94fb-b450-8ac01ed0ac7d@heuristicsystems.com.au> In-Reply-To: <18168595822.124590a671817864.8877245389235019893@swiftsmsgateway.com> References: <b5286f8d-937f-4941-9e0a-305e303d8d7d@www.fastmail.com> <ee919aa6-ed28-74aa-a434-1086bc27115c@heuristicsystems.com.au> <ec2f7761-fc07-fbdc-c0ff-8e1b242fba74@heuristicsystems.com.au> <a6cd7fdd-34c4-4f0e-b6ce-c3f456f6a301@www.fastmail.com> <18168595822.124590a671817864.8877245389235019893@swiftsmsgateway.com>
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Hi Dave, A lot to unpack. Yes we struggled getting things to work, this might've been before rebar entered the scene. It was messy and unpleasant, but erlang manages our machines. Your email prompted me to investigate rebar and friends, hence my email indicating some of my discoveries :) I'm happy that you're taking the time to understand your user-base's needs, but I would not want you to spend any time accommodating folks that haven't kept up with the changes in the erlang space. Given the availability of erlang applications via other means, the ports system though convenient, its the value is mainly to let folks know what is directly supported on FreeBSD. A maintained webpage (perhaps under https://wiki.freebsd.org/Erlang) would achieve this. And yes, I use rust to build suricata and have no knowledge of "cargo". So much to do, so little time. ;) Kind regards, Dewayne.
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