How to create a rebar repo?

Question

I want to build and deploy erlang files which will then be used as a dependency in another project. Essentially I am looking for the equivalent of mvn deploy and a sonatype repo. How would I set this up with rebar?

Answer 1

In order to create a dependency which rebar can understand, you need to have a .app.src file in a src directory. Take a look at estring - there I have the file src/estring.app.src along with my actual source file. In another project which requires estring I would have something like this in my rebar.config:

{deps, [{estring, ".", {git, "git://github.com/dweldon/estring.git", "HEAD"}},
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