[rabbitmq-discuss] Bug in management plugin escaping

Tue Feb 21 11:21:44 GMT 2012

On 02/21/2012 11:13 AM, Simon MacMullen wrote:
> On 21/02/12 11:05, Lionel Cons wrote:
>> However, since the init script succeeded, we assumed that RabbitMQ was
>> happy. Why isn't this (a required package missing) a fatal error?
>
> *Tries to remember*.
>
> There is at least one situation where you do want to ignore the errors:
> if you use an old version of Erlang (such as R12B-3 on Debian Lenny) you
> will get a bunch of missing references to SSL code. As long as you don't
> actually *use* SSL you will be fine however.

There's other situations in which apps will have code referencing 
modules that aren't present; for example, SockJS-Erlang can work with 
both misultin and cowboy and has code for both, but usually only one of 
those would be in use in a given deployment.

-Michael