rebar3 plugin about gleam

[hengestone]

Started looking at this, but the current project structure is not rebar3 friendly - I think promoting the current compiler/ subdirectory to a top-level project might be required. See e.g. the efene language and plugins
https://github.com/efene/rebar3_efene_compile

[lpil]

The compiler would be published as a hex package which will be a regular dep of the rebar3 plugin, so no problem there.

You're right in that it would be a problem if using git to resolve the dependency, I've made an issue for this here erlang/rebar3#1923

It may make sense to structure this repo as umbrella application containing multiple library applications, but I have not experimented with this yet. :)

For now I'm focusing on getting a CLI for compiling modules first, then can work on rebar support afterwards.

[hengestone]

Yeah, it's a bit of a bootstrapping issue, this blog post does a pretty good job of describing submodules: https://blog.github.com/2016-02-01-working-with-submodules/

Ideally there should be a gleam-compiler repo under the current compiler/ subdir

[lpil]

My intention is to keep all core projects in one git repo (i.e. a monorepo), so no need for submodules. I find it much easier to work with one large repository for tightly coupled projects.

If you wish to create a rebar3 plugin I would recommend forking this repository and working within another top level directory. A rebar3 plugin would be the kind of library I would like to have in the core project long term.

[hengestone]

OK, I started that under my repo, but obviously rebar itself needs support for subdirs before it can be used as-is.

[lpil]

We could use rebar checkouts until packages are published

https://www.rebar3.org/docs/dependencies#section-checkout-dependencies

[hengestone]

Cool, I missed that in the rebar docs 👍

[lpil]

Me too! tsloughter pointed it out to me

[lpil]

Hi @hengestone , are you looking at this? I was considering making a very rough and ready version in the near future but don't want to step on your toes :)

[hengestone]

Take a look at my gleam fork at https://github.com/hengestone/gleam under /gleam_rebar. That should have the code to do the actual compile step, adapted from Efene.

Feel free to build on that or discard as appropriate :)

[lpil]

Wonderful, thank you.