distributing .beam files/upgrading client software

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

beam_lib can be used to make changes to .beam files such as strip
out the compiler options.

/Bjorn

Gaspar Chilingarov <nm@REDACTED> writes:

> Hi all!
> 
> If this questions have documented answers - just please say what and
> where to rtfm :)
> 
> Are there any more-or-less standard way to distribute .beam files to
> multiple hosts ? I'm mainly interested of some, say, autoupgrade
> feature, which will allow upgrade user software without disturbing users
> and when developer wishes and not when user upgrades.
> 
> Beam files are quite small and can be easily downloaded to clients which
> makes erlang perfect for such kind of tasks, IMHO - so users are not
> forced to download large executable files every time.
> 
> I do NOT speak about upgrading code - because I'm running non-critical
> application , which clients may be restarted without any problems.
> 
> Another issue which interests me is now to strip this options
>  {compile,[{options,[export_all]},
>            {version,"4.3.9"},
>            {time,{2005,12,28,8,51,18}},
>            {source,"/usr/home/nm/tmp/a.erl"}]
> 
> from module and thus from module_info() output?
> compiler.erl (or something near it) should be modified?
> 
> Are there way to distribute gzipped beam files - as far I looked on zlib
> driver - it have hooks to load gzipped files - but how the should be
> created?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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> 
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB