ariandanim
I read that installing Elixir in Freebsd 14 has 2 distinct such as :
- Run:
pkg install elixirorpkg install elixir-devel
What the different both of them?
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mudasobwa
The wild-guess would be: as usually, the former is runtime and the latter is compiler+tools.
One should not in general use system libraries for erlang/elixir. Use
asdfversion manager or like.ariandanim
asdf currently not support in Freebsd Sir
krasenyp
The binary packages come from the ports tree and usually the
*-develpackages are more up-to-date with dependencies. The easiest way to check what’s the difference betweenelixirandelixir-develis to check the port dependencies and/or applied patches. After a quick glance, it looks likeelixirdepends on Erlang 25 andelixir-develon Erlang 27.You can use the tools that FreeBSD provides to inspect information about installed or not installed packages,
pkg infoandpkg rqueryrespectively.sbuttgereit
It also looked like
elixirwas on the 1.16.3 version andelixir-develwas 1.17.2, too.krasenyp
My bad. I don’t know why I looked up only the Erlang version… Thanks for pointing out another difference.
dch
FreeBSD’s not linux, I 100% use the 2 main elixir flavours for production usage. They are very up to date, if anybody needs an older version, we can organise that. Just open a ticket at bugs.freebsd.org and I’ll get to it.
The main difference now is:
lang/elixirtracks stable elixir (1.16.x release), uses an older erlang release (lang/erlangwhich is OTP25.x presently)lang/elixir-develtracks latest elixir (1.17.x releases atm), and uses the latest OTP releaselang/erlang-runtime27available thats compatible)There are 2 distinct package repositories available on FreeBSD. The default
quarterlyis taken from the faster-movinglatestevery quarter, and gets security fixes only backported to it.the
latestone is YOLO arch-style, updated very frequently, in line with OTP & Elixir updates. That said, we use it in production and I’ve not had any issues in years. It depends on your appetite for stability vs up-to-date-ness.asdf should be available soon on FreeBSD, there’s patches for it ready atm, or you can use
sysutils/misewhich is already present. RIIR its nice and fast.