[erlang-questions] Re: Distributions of Erlang-coded SW on Windows (really)

[Dave Pawson]

2009/8/14 Ulf Wiger <ulf.wiger@REDACTED>:
> Michael Turner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What's the best way to distribute Erlang powered, proprietary and
>>>> non-proprietary, softwares?

> There is no single "best" way.
>
> Historically, Erlang-based software have executed in closed
> clusters on proprietary platforms with a ton of software,
> of which perhaps half (sometimes more) has been erlang.
> Sometimes, it has made sense to have an erlang-centric
> packaging and release system, sometimes not.
>
> OTP has provided systools for more than a decade. It has a
> function called make_tar(), which is perfectly usable, if
> one is fine with first installing erlang, then unpacking and
> installing the application.

Does this provide the app in an 'executable' format or source?
I'm curious if there is an answer (best or not) to this question
since I haven't as yet come around to leaving a dev environment.


TIA

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