Publish on Hex.PM

[pragmaticivan]

Any reason to not have this package on Hex?

[scohen]

Not at all, I'm working on some updates that will eliminate Elixometer as a bottleneck for high-performance code. Once those are merged, I'll publish.

[pragmaticivan]

Cool! Thanks @scohen o/

[scohen]

@pragmaticivan Want to try it out? https://hex.pm/packages/elixometer

[robmadole]

✨ worked for me @scohen ✨ (where the github install method did not)

[scohen]

@robmadole I tried including this in a project of mine, and it didn't include Elixometer's deps. Did you try sending metrics? Did that work?

Btw, some of elixometer's deps aren't available as hex packages.

Also, where did the github method break?

[robmadole]

Spoke too soon actually. It failed to get lager and I discovered this after the app tried to start.

The Github method broke in a strange way. I don't have the log now but instead of resolving the hash for a tag and sticking that in the mix.lock file it put something from stderr in there. I think this may be something with my git version. I'll investigate and report back.

[scohen]

@robmadole @pragmaticivan Looks like I can't create a hex package that'll work correctly since we depend on packages that don't publish hex artifacts.

I can ask our downstream deps to publish packages.

[robmadole]

Hmm. That makes sense that hex wants hex packages. I can certainly use this project as is (github method). Installing via hex is just cleaner.

[scohen]

@robmadole I've opened a PR in the pobox repo to publish his package via hex. When that happens, I'll publish mine, and bump the version to 1.2.1

[pragmaticivan]

Nice! I think would be better always try to convince other projects to do the same so it will force to control the release workflow of the projects and anything pulling from GitHub would not be stable.

[scohen]

@pragmaticivan, @robmadole How about now? I just published 1.2.1, which should have child deps.

[robmadole]

@scohen it looks this fixes the original problem that I had (not being able to start lager). So I think the package works but I also need exometer so that I could use the statsd reporter. I tried installing {:exometer, github: "PSPDFKit-labs/exometer"} but this doesn't depend on the hex packages and conflicts with elixometer. So, I'm going to contact them and see if I can get exometer turned into a hex packages as well.

[scohen]

@robmadole what if you include the normal exometer?

{:exometer, github: "Feuerlabs/exometer"}

?

[robmadole]

Mix doesn't like normal exometer:

** (Mix) Command "git --git-dir=.git checkout --quiet fc367682a809ccd463a907e6e00e52d6d354c83f" failed
Could not compile :exometer, no "mix.exs", "rebar.config" or "Makefile" (pass :compile as an option to customize compilation, set it to "false" to do nothing)

[scohen]

of course it doesn't which is why we were using pspdfkit-labs. :-/

Exometer is awesome, but Ulf make it really hard to compile.
I want them to release a hex.pm package, but it doesn't look like they have issues turned on.

Can you use the pspdfkit versions by overriding in your mix.exs?

{:elixometer, "~>1.2.0"},
{:exometer_core, github: "PSPDFKit-Labs/exometer_core", override: true},
{:exometer, github: "PSPDFKit-Labs/exometer", override: true}

Honestly, it makes having this available on hex.pm less compelling.

[robmadole]

I put an issue up on Feuerlabs project. I think they should really own the Hex package. (They made one for exometer_core...)

I'll try what you gave me above (probably today but may be next week before I can). Thanks for the extra effort on this @scohen.

[scohen]

@robmadole I've talked to Ulf about this. He was concerned that it didn't compile on Elixir, but his main audience is erlang people, so I'm not sure how long a fix will stay fixed.

If at all possible, I'd much prefer that the main projects are on hex, and we can use them.

[lpil]

Any progress here @schun93 ? :)

[scohen]

@lpil Yes, I don't think we can do it until every one of the downstream deps puts them on hex as well.

[aerosol]

Hi, There's elixometer 1.2.1 hexpm, can we get a bump to the latest master please?

[jparise]

@aerosol, the next version (1.3.0) will be coming soon.

[jparise]

I'm going to close this issue because the initial request (publish Elixometer on hex.pm) is complete. Let's start separate issues for any other topics so that we can track them more specifically going forward.