[erlang-questions] Start module

[Adam Lindberg]

Another thing you might want to look at is to make an OTP application
of your code. Then you can start and stop your project / application
and do special init stuff.

Check out applications under:
http://erlang.org/doc/doc-5.5.4/doc/design_principles/part_frame.html

Cheers!
Adam

On 4/1/07, Lennart Ohman <lennart.ohman@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi Fredrik,
> I am not sure if I now answer something in the middle of a
> thread, but unless you have done something to your Erlang
> system, modules are automatically loaded on demand. The l/1
> shell function you are referring to is only necessary if you
> want to reload the module (like after you have a bew better
> version available).
>
> If reloading modules in runtime *is* what you want to do and
> you want it to be done in som "automagic" way, you need to
> look at the API of 'code'. What you will be doing in that case
> is actually building a kind of release handler, and requires
> understanding of the new/old code concepts.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Lennart
>
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> > Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 11:21 AM
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> > Subject: [erlang-questions] Start module
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> > Hi, I have a project that I'm working on which consists of several
> > modules. These has to be loaded ( l(my_module). ) and started in a special
> > order. Since I have 5 modules it is cumbersome to do this every time. Is
> > it possible to construct a new module that does this? It should first load
> > some modules then start them?
> > ------------------------------------
> > Fredrik Hoback
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> >
> >
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