Hi Marcel,

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 15:46, Marcel Bruch <marcel.br...@gmail.com> wrote:

> what I'm looking for is a local installation of Erlang runtime inside a
> single folder - w/o executing any platform-dependent installer.
>
> For illustration: I'm thinking of the following layout in Eclipse:
>
> /Applications/Eclipse 3.6/plugins/org.erlang.runtime_13.0.0/<all files
> needed to run an Erlang app>
>
> Erlang Apps than can be executed via command line "/Applications/Eclipse
> 3.6/plugins/org.erlang.runtime_13.0.0/bin/erl <arguments>"
>
> Could this be done? If so, any ideas how?
> I could imagine that hosting several runtimes in Eclipse enabling users to
> use different runtimes for different projects could be a nice feature
> (although I'm "just" interested to run Erlang Apps from within Eclipse).
>

Of course it can be done, but it would require a lot of work. For each new
Erlang release we would have to build and package the runtime for all
supported platforms (or at least most of them), then host the binaries.
Given that we're basically two people supporting and developing erlide, and
that distributing Erlang is not our core mission, and that not even OTP
distributes binary builds for more than Windows, I feel that the time and
effort would be better spent elsewhere.

But there may be other ways to look at the problem: what is the issue that
you want to solve? Is it just a "all in one" package for Erlang, or is it
something else?

best regards,
Vlad
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