kerl mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• kerl

Projektgeschichte

The kerl/kerl repository was created on GitHub on 2011-07-05. Its README describes a shell-agnostic tool whose direct dependencies are curl and git, excluding the system packages needed to compile Erlang/OTP itself.

kerl's design centers on separating builds from installations: once a particular OTP release is built, the build can be installed quickly into one or more destinations and activated per shell session.

Adoptionsgeschichte

kerl became a durable part of Erlang and Elixir development because it solved the practical problem of compiling many OTP versions with different configure options. The asdf-erlang plugin explicitly says it relies on kerl for builds and combines kerl's compatibility/build scripts with asdf's version-switching UX.

On 2026-07-01, GitHub API metadata reported 1,660 stars and 236 forks, and Homebrew metadata listed kerl 4.4.0.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run kerl list releases, kerl build, kerl install, and shell activation scripts to work with specific Erlang/OTP versions. The README also documents building from the official Erlang/OTP GitHub tags, official Erlang downloads, or arbitrary Git refs and forks.

In package-manager workflows, kerl is often the lower-level build engine beneath friendlier version managers, especially when macOS, Linux distro, OpenSSL, wxWidgets, or documentation-build quirks matter.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

kerl is significant because it is small shell code that encodes years of Erlang/OTP build knowledge. It sits between language-runtime packaging and developer version management, much like ruby-build or pyenv installers do for their ecosystems.

Zeitleiste

• 2011-07-05: kerl/kerl repository created on GitHub.
• 2023-10-12: 4.0.0 release published.
• 2025-06-19: 4.4.0 release published.
• 2026-07-01: Homebrew formula metadata listed kerl 4.4.0.

Related projects

• Erlang/OTP is the runtime kerl builds and installs.
• asdf-erlang relies on kerl for Erlang builds while adding asdf's .tool-versions workflow.
• Homebrew packages kerl directly for macOS users.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/kerl/kerl
• https://api.github.com/repos/kerl/kerl/releases?per_page=10
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/kerl.json
• https://github.com/erlang/otp
• https://github.com/kerl/kerl
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang/master/README.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kerl/kerl/master/README.md
• https://www.erlang.org/downloads