Erlang

= Erlang Special Interest Group =

Mission
To encourage the packaging of Erlang projects in Fedora.

Members/Packagers/Reviewers

 * PeterLemenkov
 * ConradMeyer
 * Hans Ulrich Niedermann (ndim)

Please add your name above if you want to help.

Tasks

 * Create common guidelines for erlang-related applications and libraries
 * Ensure that all packages are built with +debug_info (slightly increase the size of beam-files, but won't hurt performance at all)
 * Allow parallel installation of packages (similar to kernel)
 * Provide pre-built plt images
 * Narrow Build Requires - only list packages which are required for building and not the whole erlang stack.
 * Remove "soft" dependencies. Some package dependencies are not strictly required - application tries to "dlopen" it (it starts to use it only in case of success; in case of failure it fallbacks to some default scenario). Notable one is a debugger which tries to download GUI interface and fallbacks to cli in case of failure.
 * Fix installation of jinterface - it doesn't use %{_javadir} for storing jar-file now.
 * All man-pages should be marked as docs. Consider also installing them to system-default paths (very likely will produce a conflicts and namespace clashes).
 * pgsql needs patching for R11B due to missing lists:keymember/3 function. Seems to be a very simple task.

Reviews

 * exmpp - a fast and scalable library for the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol.
 * erlang-etorrent - Erlang BitTorrent client and library
 * erlang-riak_core - Distributed systems infrastructure used by Riak
 * erlang-bitcask - Eric Brewer-inspired key/value store
 * erlang-riak_kv - Riak Key/Value Store
 * erlang-skerl - Skein hash function for Erlang, via NIFs
 * erlang-luwak - Large-object storage interface for Riak
 * riak - Dynamo-inspired key/value store

Potential packages

 * erlyweb
 * Yxa
 * erlang-mysql-driver - A native Erlang MySQL client library. One of the runtime dependencies for ejabberd. Please, not that there are two forks - one from P1 and another one from Yariv Sadan. All these three projects are based on the original work by Magnus Ahltorp. Read this post for further details.
 * Jungerl is also contains some very interesting libraries and applications, however not all of them are in good shape.
 * User contributions page at trapexit contains some handy user-submitted utilities.
 * Nitrogen Web Framework.
 * egssapi - Erlang GSSAPI and SPNEGO API (one of the runtime requirements for Yaws).
 * eldap - Erlang LDAP API. A patched copy is bundled with ejabberd.

Rejected packages

 * Jabberlang - a client Jabber library for Erlang . Obsoleted by exmpp
 * erlmedia - Erlang library for parsing different media formats. One of the requirements for erlyvideo . Abandoned by upstream authors.
 * erlang-rtmp - Erlang RTMP library. One of the requirements for erlyvideo . Abandoned by upstream authors.
 * erlang-fd_server . Similar functionality (binding to privileged ports) may be obtained with kernel > 2.6.24 with capabilities.