standalone erlang

[Sean Hinde]

On 18 Feb 2005, at 13:30, Thomas Lindgren wrote:

>
> --- Vlad Dumitrescu <vlad_dumitrescu@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to suggest another variant: in a LAN
>> environment, the libraries might
>> be made available via the network. Not for download,
>> but for the code loader.
>
> You can always try "erl -loader inet -hosts ...".
>
> (I hasten to say I never have :-)
>
> Though the problem with internet scale deployment
> would really be whether you can trust the code you are
> loading, as mentioned to me yesterday by someone who
> shall only be known as "Sean".

Well, Sean might also have said that this was a solution to a 
non-existing problem - no-one cares about typical application size 
downloads these days.

Sean