[erlang-questions] Copying applications between different OTP versions

[Ulf Wiger]

The .rel and .boot files have path names with explicit version
numbers in them, so the loader will not be able to find the
files, if you use a boot file with a different version of OTP.

BR,
Ulf W

2007/6/24, Kirill Zaborski <qrilka@REDACTED>:
> Do I understand right that I can not copy my application to an older OTP
> installation? E.g. If I make my app (boot-files and so on) with the latest
> OTP R11B-5 and the target system has R10B-10 (just a bit older than 1 year).
> If I run my boot file I get
> {"init terminating in do_boot",{'cannot load',error_handler,get_file}}
>
> System Principles in OTP documentation uses target_system.erl but which is
> not a part of OTP and I wonder why?
> And also it is useful for creating target system in the same OS and what if
> I run a Windows workstation and production code should run on some kind of
> Unix?
> As I understand to be able to install an application I need to have access
> to releases and lib directories of Erlang system so I copy myapp.tar.gz and
> then run release_handler:unpack_release(ReleaseName) and
> release_handler:install_release(Vsn). Am I right?
>
> Regards,
> Kirill.
>
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