New Erlang, Ejabberd, and Twisted Words For Intrepid

January 16, 2009

We’ve been preparing new some machines at Stanziq and I’ve had to build some custom packages for various bits of our software stack. I’ve made these available on my Launchpad PPA. I’ve updated the ejabberd-snapshot package and added erlang and python-twisted-words packages.

The new ejabberd-snapshot is built from trunk revision 1821. There are some great fixes for mod_pubsub in here.

Intrepid comes with Erlang version R12B-3, but the latest is R12B-5. There is at least one important fix in the newest version that affects ejabberd users. Thankfully, the Debian maintainers have already packaged it; it just hasn’t made it into intrepid. Their package is now built in my PPA so that all Ubuntu users may enjoy an updated Erlang.

Finally, python-twisted-words suffers from slow serialization of XML. There is an open bug about this in the Twisted Trac, but it hasn’t yet been applied to trunk. We’ve been using it at Chesspark for two years, and it will speed up your Twisted XMPP code considerably if it does much serialization.

Enjoy these packages!