[Buildroot] Upgrading Erlang and ejabberd

[Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>]

Am Tue, 09 May 2017 15:44:06 +0200 schrieb Peter Korsgaard:

>>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Hunleth
>>>>>> <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
>>>>>> writes:
> 
> Hi Frank,
> 
>  > I'd very much like to update the version of Erlang used in Buildroot.
>  > I had been doing this quite a while ago, but stopped pushing my
>  > changes upstream due to ejabberd breaking. I don't use ejabberd.
>  > Updating it and all of its dependencies to work with more recent
>  > Erlang versions is turning out to be quite a bit of work and I don't
>  > know how to test it to make sure that I didn't break anything.
> 
>  > Erlang 20 will be released soon and it has some really interesting
>  > improvements that would be great to have available by default in
>  > Buildroot. (BR currently has Erlang 18.3; 19.3 is the current
>  > release). Is there anyone out there who would mind helping update
>  > ejabberd? Johan - you're listed as the ejabberd package maintainer,
>  > could you help? Or if not Johan, is anyone else interested?
> 
> Added Johan in To:.
> 
> Thanks for bringing it up, it would indeed be good to get our erlang
> package updated. In the worst case, if nobody wants to do the work to
> keep ejabberd uptodate and compatible with newer erlang versions then I
> think the way forward is to drop the ejabberd package.

Hi,

+1 for dropping ejabberd. For my couchdb server I need erlang which I 
privately updated to 19.3 without problems. I hesitated to send these 
patches after seeing the same problem as Frank: Updating ejabberd will 
not be easy...

Regards, Bernd