On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 01:48:11PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Good news. The changelog for > > http://erlang.org/download/OTP-19.0-rc1.README > > says that > > OTP-13504 Application(s): compiler > > The compiler will no longer put the compilation date > and time into BEAM files. That means that two BEAM > files compiled on the same computer from the same > source code and compilation options will be identical. > > Note: If you want to find out whether a BEAM file on > disk is different from the loaded code, compared the > MD5 value obtained from Mod:module_info(md5) with the > MD5 value obtained from beam_lib:md5(BeamFileForMod)` > > This means that Erlang and Elixir may go into GNU Guix :)
Indeed, great news :) I will try building it with Guix today.
