[Bug 194300] Review Request: compat-erlang

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Summary: Review Request: compat-erlang


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194300





------- Additional Comments From tibbs at math.uh.edu  2006-06-07 10:29 EST -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> The wings3d binary for Linux published by upstream packages the part
> of erlang and esdl, that is needed for running wings. This means that
> the expanded wings package only has 6.4M instead of over 114M for erlang
> alone. Shouldn't we do the same? In this case compat-erlang is only
> needed at compile time.

I didn't realize you could do that; it does open up some other possibilities:

1) Just have the wings3d package include the stuff it needs to run.

2) Conditionalize the wings3d package to include the bits it needs only if it
doesn't run with the current erlang release.

3) Put the necessary bits into an erlang-runtime package (and the bits from the
older release in a compat-erlang-runtime package).  Add Provides:
erlang-runtime(R11B) (or R10B as appropriate) and then have each erlang-using
package simply require erlang-runtime(blah) as necessary.  Make sure your
compat-erlang-runtime packages are parallel-installable (which means they need
the version in the name (compat-erlang-runtime-R10B-1-1.i386.rpm).

The latter is probably too much work for the small number of erlang packages
around (basically wings3d and ejabberd, I think).

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