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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, E

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 https://elixir-lang.org/install.html I'd love to make it work for elixir install if we can though :)

cess11 2y ago
I generally recommend using ASDF to install Erlang/Elixir, it has support for Fedora. https://asdf-vm.com/guide/getting-started.html https://asdf-vm.com/guide/getting-started.html https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-elixir https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-elixir Slightly more ceremony than curl | sh, but a good tool to have.
- cassepipe 2y ago
  What does "support for Fedora" means in this context ?
  - xelamonster 2y ago
    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 2y ago
      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 2y ago
        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 2y ago
    Dependencies are in dnf, should just work with the common shells.
- ashconnor 2y ago
  Mise also has support https://mise.jdx.dev/ https://mise.jdx.dev/
  - jdxcode 2y ago
    mise should get precompiled erlang on macos today too
  - abrookewood 2y ago
    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 2y ago
    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.

cess11 2y ago

I generally recommend using ASDF to install Erlang/Elixir, it has support for Fedora. https://asdf-vm.com/guide/getting-started.html https://asdf-vm.com/guide/getting-started.html https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-elixir https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-elixir Slightly more ceremony than curl | sh, but a good tool to have.

cassepipe 2y ago
What does "support for Fedora" means in this context ?
- xelamonster 2y ago
  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 2y ago
    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 2y ago
      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 2y ago
  Dependencies are in dnf, should just work with the common shells.
ashconnor 2y ago
Mise also has support https://mise.jdx.dev/ https://mise.jdx.dev/
- jdxcode 2y ago
  mise should get precompiled erlang on macos today too
- abrookewood 2y ago
  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 2y ago
  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.