Maybe this isn't the best place for feedback, but I was inspired to give this a ...

chrismccord · 2024-12-04T04:55:30 1733288130

I will see if we can do something about fedora, but we now convert hyphens to underscores because I'm sure that will trip more folks up – thanks!

For fedora, Elixir has instructions on their site:

    sudo dnf install elixir erlang

https://elixir-lang.org/install.html

I'd love to make it work for elixir install if we can though :)

cess11 · 2024-12-04T10:29:51 1733308191

I generally recommend using ASDF to install Erlang/Elixir, it has support for Fedora.

https://asdf-vm.com/guide/getting-started.html https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-elixir

Slightly more ceremony than curl | sh, but a good tool to have.

ashconnor · 2024-12-04T17:22:08 1733332928

Mise also has support

https://mise.jdx.dev/

abrookewood · 2024-12-05T04:26:43 1733372803

I think Mise is better than ASDF - they have a whole document on why their approach is better than the shims used by ASDF. Both seem fine though.

cess11 · 2024-12-05T07:57:14 1733385434

How does it handle the wx stuff and whatnot that's required for Observer?

Seems to have more project management and make-like capabilities, I can see why someone might find that attractive but it's not for me.

jdxcode · 2024-12-04T17:30:34 1733333434

mise should get precompiled erlang on macos today too

cassepipe · 2024-12-04T16:16:24 1733328984

What does "support for Fedora" means in this context ?

xelamonster · 2024-12-04T17:12:41 1733332361

It supports most OSes rather nicely, check the docs for a long list of config options. It creates a local package store and configures your user's path for it, each tool is managed with a custom plugin that IME works flawlessly and versions are handled better than anything else I've ever used. It's the only way I'll install Golang or NodeJS lately, and I had good luck with it for Java too.

cess11 · 2024-12-05T07:51:51 1733385111

I prefer sdkman.io for the JVM, has most of the things for stuff that runs on it in one place, including Clojure tooling and Quarkus and whatnot.

xelamonster · 2024-12-06T01:44:35 1733449475

Ah cool, maybe I'll check it out someday. JVM isn't a huge part of my daily work though so I'm pretty happy having it managed the same way as everything else for now. I like the intuitive simplicity of a .tool-versions file in a repo that supports a huge variety of tools.

cess11 · 2024-12-05T07:42:59 1733384579

Dependencies are in dnf, should just work with the common shells.