Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:24:56 +0000 From: "Dave Cottlehuber" <dch@skunkwerks.at> To: erlang <freebsd-erlang@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating Erlang and Elixir ports Message-ID: <ae482618-8fbd-4795-a274-4fb64cf40fea@www.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3db0cb28-ccca-43ff-a1c5-0a61d68821d5@FreeBSD.org> References: <3F042C33-7F4A-4398-BF3D-EB48FECFC834@westryn.net> <3db0cb28-ccca-43ff-a1c5-0a61d68821d5@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, at 23:11, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote: > 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 Kim, There are ~ 70 dependent ports which require Elixir: https://www.freshports.org/lang/elixir -> Dependencies These need to be tested, and either updated, patched, or deprecated from ports, to accomodate a new Elixir version. This is pretty much the same process for any compiler in FreeBSD ports. I looked into net/rabbitmq back in December: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27532 A number of the boot scripts for RabbitMQ changes, and while J-S gave me some tips, I've not had the time/motivation to finish it... life under COVID is heavily dependent on whether there are 3 kids at home during the day or not, and it turned out not to be a simple fix that fitted in my free time. I will revisit my rabbitmq patches this evening and update it as far as I can, now that 3.8.14 is out it might be simpler. > From a developer PoV, I believe it would make FreeBSD more friendly if > lang/erlang would always be the latest and greatest. +1 > 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. Ditto for databases/couchdb*. > 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 think? I'd rather see Elixir running against lang/erlang (default). People who desperately need newer elixir + older erlang can install their own elixir tarball, its not hard, or just use ports and not upgrade. > > 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? Checking dependencies and helping out would be awesome! If you need help with getting started, I'm happy to help you. A+ Dave
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