<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I know it's not exactly the "principle of least surprise" but close enough - I'd agree that not changing the default, but providing a simple way to accomplish the goal, is probably the best way forward.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Doug</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 8, 2016, at 9:45 AM, Gleb Vinogradov <<a href="mailto:g.a.vinogradov@gmail.com" class="">g.a.vinogradov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">May be we just need compiler option for creating stable builds? --stable-build , --pure-build or similar<div class="">So no build time, and no paths will be included in *.beam file. It will not break workflow for anyone, and may be later, in OTP 21 non-stable builds will be deprecated.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gleb.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-08 16:32 GMT+06:00 Björn Gustavsson <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:bjorn@erlang.org" target="_blank" class="">bjorn@erlang.org</a>></span>:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As long as anyone can remember, the compilation time has been included<br class="">
in BEAM files (and can be retrieved using module_info()).<br class="">
<br class="">
As far as I know, the inclusion of the time has only caused problems.<br class="">
I can't remember that anyone has found any use for the compilation<br class="">
time.<br class="">
<br class="">
So if we decide to remove the compilation time by default in OTP 19...<br class="">
<br class="">
... would it cause any problem for someone in some workflow?<br class="">
<br class="">
... would we need an option to include the compilation time?<br class="">
<br class="">
/Bjorn<br class="">
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><br class="">
--<br class="">
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB<br class="">
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