Thanks Alain. On 04.06.2011, at 19:12, Alain O'Dea wrote:
> Hi Marcel: > > Beyond the impracticality of distributed OSGi Bundles of ERTS for each major > platform that Vlad explains is that it's not how things are done with Eclipse: > - JDT does not include the JRE. > - CDT does not include a C/C++ runtime. > - PyDev does not include Python. > - The list goes on... > > This is not a truly deep argument against your proposed solution in itself, > but ErlIDE should go with the flow here to avoid issues and developer > confusion. > > OSGi bundles for ERTS could be independently built and deployed to a p2 > update server. A user could then configure ErlIDE could to point at the > bundle installed or the bundle itself could optionally configure ErlIDE if > present. > > I still think it is better to install Erlang separately using > platform-specific mechanisms if people are doing Erlang development. > Otherwise you run into the "it works in the IDE", but the developers can't > actually deploy their code to real systems. > > To deploy for application end-users I repeat my suggestion that Wings3D > obviously gets this right and is an example to follow. > > Best regards, > Alain > > On 2011-06-04, at 14:20, Vlad Dumitrescu <vladd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Marcel, >> >> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 15:46, Marcel Bruch <marcel.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >> what I'm looking for is a local installation of Erlang runtime inside a >> single folder - w/o executing any platform-dependent installer. >> >> For illustration: I'm thinking of the following layout in Eclipse: >> >> /Applications/Eclipse 3.6/plugins/org.erlang.runtime_13.0.0/<all files >> needed to run an Erlang app> >> >> Erlang Apps than can be executed via command line "/Applications/Eclipse >> 3.6/plugins/org.erlang.runtime_13.0.0/bin/erl <arguments>" >> >> Could this be done? If so, any ideas how? >> I could imagine that hosting several runtimes in Eclipse enabling users to >> use different runtimes for different projects could be a nice feature >> (although I'm "just" interested to run Erlang Apps from within Eclipse). >> >> Of course it can be done, but it would require a lot of work. For each new >> Erlang release we would have to build and package the runtime for all >> supported platforms (or at least most of them), then host the binaries. >> Given that we're basically two people supporting and developing erlide, and >> that distributing Erlang is not our core mission, and that not even OTP >> distributes binary builds for more than Windows, I feel that the time and >> effort would be better spent elsewhere. >> >> But there may be other ways to look at the problem: what is the issue that >> you want to solve? Is it just a "all in one" package for Erlang, or is it >> something else? >> >> best regards, >> Vlad >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. >> Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, >> secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. >> Get your free trial download today. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 >> _______________________________________________ >> Erlide-devel mailing list >> Erlide-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/erlide-devel
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