Programming Erlang, 2nd Edition

Making a Local Copy of the Dependencies

My bertie application made a local copy of bitcask in a local subdirectory of the bertie application. Sometimes several different applications want to make use of the same dependencies, in which case we create a dependency directory structure outside our application.

For my local projects I keep all my downloaded rebar dependencies in one place. I store all these dependencies under a top-level directory called ~joe/nobackup/erl_imports. My machine is organized so that any files under the nobackup directory are not subject to backup. Since the files I’m interested in are widely available on the Web, it doesn’t seem necessary to create local backups.

The file ~joe/nobackup/erlang_imports/rebar.config ...