kerl/kerl
Easy building and installing of Erlang/OTP instances observed · 2026-10-19
Health v2 · maintenance only
38/100
- Activity 19
- Release rhythm 28
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 57
- age_days: 5586
- days_rel: 488
- days_push: 488
- n_releases_24m: 2
Adoption not part of the score
1666 stars · 236 forks observed · 2026-10-19
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
kerl is a POSIX shell script for easily building and installing Erlang/OTP instances. It tracks downloaded and built releases so new installations are fast and switching between Erlang/OTP versions is simple.
Use cases
- install a specific Erlang/OTP release
- manage multiple Erlang versions on one machine
- switch between Erlang/OTP installations
- build Erlang from a git repository
- list available Erlang/OTP releases
When to choose
- you need multiple Erlang/OTP versions side by side
- you want a dependency-light shell-based version manager
- you need to build Erlang from source or a git repo
When to avoid
- you just need Erlang via your system package manager
- you want precompiled binaries without building from source
- you are not working with Erlang/OTP
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
build-tool package-manager cli developer-tools developer-tools programming-languages bsd cli erlang otp version-manager shell posix-shell command-line linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/kerl/kerl · fetched 2026-10-19 · 8b63b5be3c01
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| kerl/kerl | main | 38 |
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