[erlang-questions] Erlang "jar" file?

[Bengt Kleberg]

greetings,

i wrote an escript (besea) that is an executable archive handler 
(add/extract/run/etc). it does need a working escript on the targert 
(and that means at least CEAN is installed).

is that something similar to what you need?


bengt
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On 2007-10-31 02:17, Bernhard Damberger wrote:
> Does erlang support the idea of an archived collection of compiled code, like
> a jar file? I know that Joe Armstrong wrote a tool called ear that creates
> an archive for stand alone erlang (see http://www.sics.se/~joe/sae.html).
> But I got the impression that this is not supported by the standard erlang
> distribution (or is no longer being actively developed).
> 
> All the interpreter really needs to do is to be able to load the .beam files
> in from an archived file (say zip format). So, can it currently do so?
> 
> _bernhard