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@@ -5,6 +5,27 @@ they are unavoidable. You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20220628: + AFFECTS: users of Erlang and Elixir + AUTHOR: dch@FreeBSD.org + + For more than a decade, the Elixir Mix tool and the Erlang rebar + or erlang.mk build tools have been the defacto way of installing + and managing packages for specific applications. + + All main-stream applications, from Riak, CouchDB, RabbitMQ, Phoenix, + and Elixir, expect that packages are fetched and compiled into an OTP + Release, with in-built version locking, external package management. + + There is no point in maintaining a large number of libraries, that + are used neither for development, nor operations. + + Users are directed to https://rebar3.org/ https://erlang.mk/ or + https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/introduction-to-mix.html + to fetch custom packages. + + https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2021-07-2021-09/#_freebsd_erlang_ecosystem_ports_update + 20220626: AFFECTS: users of python AUTHOR: thierry@FreeBSD.org |