[Buildroot] Upgrading Erlang and ejabberd
Bernd Kuhls
bernd.kuhls at t-online.de
Tue May 9 15:34:13 UTC 2017
Am Tue, 09 May 2017 15:44:06 +0200 schrieb Peter Korsgaard:
>>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Hunleth
>>>>>> <fhunleth at troodon-software.com>
>>>>>> writes:
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> > I'd very much like to update the version of Erlang used in Buildroot.
> > I had been doing this quite a while ago, but stopped pushing my
> > changes upstream due to ejabberd breaking. I don't use ejabberd.
> > Updating it and all of its dependencies to work with more recent
> > Erlang versions is turning out to be quite a bit of work and I don't
> > know how to test it to make sure that I didn't break anything.
>
> > Erlang 20 will be released soon and it has some really interesting
> > improvements that would be great to have available by default in
> > Buildroot. (BR currently has Erlang 18.3; 19.3 is the current
> > release). Is there anyone out there who would mind helping update
> > ejabberd? Johan - you're listed as the ejabberd package maintainer,
> > could you help? Or if not Johan, is anyone else interested?
>
> Added Johan in To:.
>
> Thanks for bringing it up, it would indeed be good to get our erlang
> package updated. In the worst case, if nobody wants to do the work to
> keep ejabberd uptodate and compatible with newer erlang versions then I
> think the way forward is to drop the ejabberd package.
Hi,
+1 for dropping ejabberd. For my couchdb server I need erlang which I
privately updated to 19.3 without problems. I hesitated to send these
patches after seeing the same problem as Frank: Updating ejabberd will
not be easy...
Regards, Bernd
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