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What is the reason for requiring the absolute latest minor tick releases? Elixir is pretty cool, but the default solution to installing it (from the erlang-solu

What is the reason for requiring the absolute latest minor tick releases? Elixir is pretty cool, but the default solution to installing it (from the erlang-solutions repo) gives me a version that doesn't work with Phoenix. I don't really want to build the language from source, as that makes deployment just that much harder and error prone.

rubiquity 12y ago
Version managers do exist for Elixir to make upgrading Elixir easier. One such is exenv[0] and elixir-build[1] which should be familiar to you in use if you've ever used rbenv and ruby-build. If you're on OS X, homebrew usually gets updated with the latest version of Elixir minutes after a release happens. 0 - https://github.com/mururu/exenv https://github.com/mururu/exenv 1 - https://github.com/mururu/elixir-build https://github.com/mururu/elixir-build
- darkof 12y ago
  I use kerl - https://github.com/yrashk/kerl https://github.com/yrashk/kerl and kiex - https://github.com/taylor/kiex https://github.com/taylor/kiex. They also work very well.
- ma2ge 12y ago
  I used exenv to get new Elixir version, it's very useful for me.
josevalim 12y ago
Hrm, unless I am missing something, Phoenix requires Elixir 1.0.2 which is available in Erlang Solutions sources? https://www.erlang-solutions.com/downloads/download-elixir https://www.erlang-solutions.com/downloads/download-elixir The reason though is that Elixir 1.0.2 includes some bug fixes that affects Phoenix in development.