Build Installers (osx/win/deb/rpm)

[daleharvey]

As was said on the tin, plain installers that new people can run with no previous dependancies

[benoitc]

I propose to make erica a full erlang release. So it wouldn't depends on erlang at the install.

[travispaul]

I'm not sure I know what you mean by "make erica a full erlang release" could you clarify? I'm new to erlang and rebar.

For what it's worth, I have a specfile for erica here: https://raw.github.com/TravisPaul/specfiles/master/erica.spec
And a SRPM here: https://travispaul.me/erica-0.3.0-1.el6.src.rpm
As well as an ignored package review request here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922060

I had to move the review request from Fedora to EPEL because last I tried erica wouldn't build on Rawhide with the latest Erlang release. Not sure if this is still the case.

I use erica on all my RHEL/Fedora machines so I found an RPM helpful. The static libraries that are used to build erica will probably be an issue for making it into any distro repos though. I have tried contacting the fedora Erlang special interest group in several mediums (mailing list, IRC, email) with no feedback from any of them. :(

[benoitc]

i dont' think it should be the responsability of a source code to provides its own packages generally. imo should be splitted in its own repo if need.