[HeXetic]

My only exposure to Erlang has been through RabbitMQ and while I can't comment much on the language itself, managing the packages is a dependency nightmare. Like some twisted, mutant, supervillain version of Python, a given version of RabbitMQ will only work with a certain version of Erlang (with horrible, hard-to-understand error messages on incorrect versions), and on RedHat/CentOS, the Erlang packages all misadvertise what exact versions they supply, necessitating awkward forcing of the dependencies or else Yum screws everything up.

[not_a_cop75]

You might be right, but what you say sounds like it's coming from a true outsider. What would someone within the community say?

[liveoneggs]

why wouldn't you just use rabbit rpms that depend on the exact correct versions of erlang? aka els-erlang

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/resources/download.html

Linux distros have always been terrible places to find reliable packages.

[oblio]

He he. And then you have people complaining that you're a "bad OSS citizen"...

[liveoneggs]

me, ELS, or redhat?