Distillery

To distill something means to draw out the important components of something and recombine them into an improved form. That is what distillery does; it takes your Mix project and produces an Erlang/OTP release, a distilled form of your raw application, a single package which can be deployed anywhere, independently of a separate Erlang/Elixir installation.

Plus, what can I say, I like the imagery of distillation/elixir/alchemy.

This is a pure-Elixir, dependency-free implementation of release generation for Elixir projects. It is currently a standalone package, but may be integrated into Mix at some point in the future.

WARNING: This package is an experimental replacement for exrm, use at your own risk!

Installation

Distillery requires Elixir 1.3 or greater.

defp deps do
  [{:distillery, "~> 0.6"}]
end

Just add as a mix dependency and use mix release. This is a replacement for exrm, but is in beta at this time.

If you are new to releases, please review the documentation.

TODO

• Upgrades/downgrades
• Plugin system from exrm
• Read-only filesystems
• CLI tooling improvements
• Documentation
• Code cleanup

License

MIT. See the LICENSE.md in this repository for more details.