Provide possibility to use a config file, so people do not need to give command line arguments every time.

Format should be similar/identical to parsed arguments in lib/edip/config.ex (a dict).

This topic is not covered yet, and needs to be explored.

Is it a target for EDIP?
How can we achieve it?

Possible approach:

Since an umbrella project is just a collection of independent apps, each app can be packaged separately. This is what exrm is also doing, and therefore we should aim for the same goal.

This has 2 implications:

1. When running in <umbrella_project>/apps/<app_project>, the ../../<something> paths needs to be resolved. Means: We can't just mount the current app directory into the container but have always to mount the umbrella root. This means we have to provide some switches in the packaging flow.
2. When running from the umbrella root a specific app has to be given. And/or we also give the option to package all apps. (--app <app_dir_name>/--all). Currently this would need to trigger separate packaging builds for each app.

For 2 to evaluate: packaging of all apps in same EDIP run?
(multiple artifacts -> multiple artifact configurations -> multiple image imports)

Also keep in mind: The projects can still depend on each other.
{:my_local_dep, path: "../my_local_dep"}
(This is perhaps a real use case for umbrella projects.)

Links:

• http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/dependencies-and-umbrella-apps.html
• https://github.com/bitwalker/exrm

I wonder if an option to override the edip repository would be accepted? I'm trying to find a potential bug in the building process but it's hard to use my fork as I would need to fork both projects.

Does this make sense?

Hey I noticed that when the make call fails the mix task still says that the image is ready.

/bin/sh: docker: not found
package/make-image.mk:18: recipe for target 'build' failed
make[1]: *** [build] Error 127
make: *** [image] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build'
package/Makefile:24: recipe for target 'image' failed
Makefile:51: recipe for target 'build-package' failed
make[1]: *** [build-package] Error 2
==> The image is ready! You can check with docker images

I saw that there's a message for this case but apparently it's not being checked if do_cmd got back an :ok or error tuple

https://github.com/asaaki/mix-edip/blob/master/lib/edip/utils.ex#L27

I can send a PR for this case!

Is there any chance to see mix-edip using a docker image with elixir 1.1.x in near future? :)