Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:11:04 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jean-S=c3=a9bastien_P=c3=a9dron?= <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-erlang@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Erlang and Elixir ports Message-ID: <3db0cb28-ccca-43ff-a1c5-0a61d68821d5@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3F042C33-7F4A-4398-BF3D-EB48FECFC834@westryn.net> References: <3F042C33-7F4A-4398-BF3D-EB48FECFC834@westryn.net>
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On 10/03/2021 02:22, Kim Shrier wrote: > I was wondering if there is something that prevents us from > updating the lang/erlang port from version 21 up to version 23? > If so, is it something I could help with? Hi! I don't know what the policy is w.r.t. all lang/erlang* ports. From a developer PoV, I believe it would make FreeBSD more friendly if lang/erlang would always be the latest and greatest. This could potentially break ports depending on lang/erlang because they might not work with the latest version. I think they should be fixed by pinning the right version of Erlang (taken from lang/erlang-runtime*). For example, net/rabbitmq is already using lang/erlang-runtime21 for build and at runtime. I believe Elixir should be compiled with the oldest version of Erlang it supports: this would allow to use it with any versions of Erlang at runtime. What do people thing? > I see that there is a patch to update Elixir to 1.11.3. Is there > anything blocking this update that I could help with? I don't know the Elixir world, so I can't comment on this particular update. But as we only have a single unversioned port, I guess the update depends on what other ports using it accept. -- Jean-Sébastien Pédron The FreeBSD Project
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