I'm looking to collect information on why certain functionality found in Erlang/OTP is usually handled instead by a third party library in people's projects.
This could be bugs, missing functionality, poor interface, performance, etc.
Examples off the top of my head that need expanding on are:
- httpc
- httpd
- http_uri
- reltool
Please comment on this gist with libs and reasons, even if you aren't sure they are accurate or still accurate today.
Humm... I got this dupplicated so I thought I removed one copy but it seems it went away altogether! So here we go again!
@aerosol
This is a symptom of that the OTP team have not had a good enough process for including contributions. I think it is just lately that PR-process has started to work good enough.
In the past it was quite common that prototypes that work well for some use case where included without proper tests, documentation or code reviews. We do have it in our backlog to
make eldap into a proper OTP application, it just has not been prioritized high enough yet. PR are welcome.