FreeBSD Erlang Team

Erlang, Elixir, rebar, relx, and related stuff.

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• Dave Cottlehuber (dch@)
• Babak Farrokhi (farrokhi@)
• Jimmy Olgeni (olgeni@)
• Jean Sébastien Pédron (dumbbell@)
• Kenji Rikitake
• Ashish Shukla (ashish@)
• You are welcome to join :)

• remove the deprecated runtimes in 2021Q4
• remove ports directly dependent on erlang- and elixir- languages
• update RabbitMQ to the next major release, which requires OTP23 minimum, and introduces support for the JIT
• bump the main lang/erlang runtime to OTP24 because JIT is awesome
• Deprecate library ports
• Generalize the dependency loading mechanism of devel/rebar3 (or even better databases/leofs) and make it available to all ports.

• New port: DalmatinerDB (started here)
• New port: BarrelDB
• New port: VerneMQ
• Make a separate erlang-epmd port + rc.d daemon to allow ports to rely on a parent epmd daemon starting with reduced privileges PR213001

• adding !OTP24 [done]
• security fixes for rebar [done]
• adding a new language runtime for gleam [done]
• more than 40 point release updates in the last quarter alone for the Erlang runtimes [done]
• Make Erlang ports buildable from GitHub sources (remove patching and prebuilt tarballs) [done]
• Check and commit databases/couchdb2 port PR 218844 [done]
• Make lang/erlang-doc buildable from GitHub sources (was merged into lang/erlang as it requires a full source build anyway) [done]
• Merge Erlang Corba tools into Erlang 21 and 22, as an option. [done]
• Install RabbitMQ code in a separate directory, like CouchDB does. [done]
• Rebar3 insisted on downloading a package index even if all dependencies were already provided. [done, see commit 424103f]