On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Jesse Gumm <[email protected]> wrote: > Reltool is a mysterious beast, and takes some finagling to truly tame > it. And *even then*, you never truly have it tamed. > > What I'm planning on doing, as my learning experiment for a new tool > to add to CB is to use relx (https://github.com/erlware/relx) to > create releases. It's all the rage these days when it comes to > simplifying the confusion that comes with reltool, relup, and the > likes. > > I spent weeks dancing with rebar and reltool, uncertain if certain > issues are user error, rebar's fault, or reltool's fault, and in the > end, there were issues with all three. And despite that time spent > working on reltool, I'm not even remotely comfortable with it. > > My goal is going to be reworking the application creation process for > CB such that it will include a "make release" to use to make it > directly from your application. I would feel terrible if I have to > tell new users to dive into the reltool.config file to figure out > what's going on there. > > I think releases are freaking amazing, and yet reltool is an exercise > in frustration. So if you're feeling saucy, feel free to jump into > relx and see if it isn't easier for you.
Any word on this? Does CB play well with releases at this point even without this? -- David N. Welton http://www.welton.it/davidw/ http://www.dedasys.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChicagoBoss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/CA%2Bb9R_vLnj4Z2%3DNgx0LiHTJ0wWuT1e_0HpqCc6%2BTYwvV2LKzDg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
