aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/system/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'system/README')
-rw-r--r--system/README78
1 files changed, 78 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/system/README b/system/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..29d86b8f47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/README
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+Erlang/OTP March 18, 2009
+
+
+LAST MINUTE INFORMATION -- Release of Erlang 5.7/OTP R13A
+
+
+1. GENERAL
+ -------
+
+1.1 Installation Guide
+
+ The installation guide can be found in
+
+ <inst-root>/doc/installation_guide/part_frame.html
+
+1.2 Java
+
+ The Java sources were compiled using Java version 1.5.
+
+1.3 Disk space
+
+ An installation of Erlang/OTP needs approximately 140 MB of
+ disk space.
+
+1.4 The package contains HTML documentation. You can also get this
+ documentation preformatted for printing in PDF format from
+
+ http://www.erlang.se/doc/
+
+ This site also contains HTML documentation for older releases
+ as a reference.
+
+1.5 The Erlang system can run old BEAM files compiled with R11B-2
+ or later (and almost all BEAM files compiled with R11B-0 or
+ R11B-1). BEAM files from R10B or earlier are not supported.
+
+ To get the best performance, you should recompile your
+ application code with the R13A compiler.
+
+
+2. NOTES ABOUT THE SOLARIS VERSION
+ -------------------------------
+
+2.1 For the Sparc Solaris environment, Solaris8 (2.8) and above is
+ supported. The emulator doesn't run on older Solaris versions.
+ Also an Ultrasparc (sun4u architecture) is required.
+
+
+3. NOTES ABOUT THE VXWORKS VERSION
+ -------------------------------
+
+3.1 The platform VxWorks is discontinued in the sense that only the
+ libraries (erl_interface and ic's libraries) are supported. Running
+ the Erlang emulator on VxWorks might still possible but it's no longer
+ maintained. The VxWorks release is still packaged as a full release,
+ but no support will be available for anything but the communication libraries.
+
+4 NOTES ABOUT THE LINUX VERSIONS
+ -----------------------------
+
+4.1 The following linux distributions/version combinations are supported
+ and tested:
+
+ Suse 9.4 x86, Suse 10.1 x86
+
+5. APPLICATIONS NOTES
+ ------------------
+
+
+6. MORE INFORMATION
+ ----------------
+
+ Commercial customers please visit http://www.erlang.se to find
+ releases and more information. Commercial support is given through
+
+ Open source users please visit http://www.erlang.org and direct
+ problems to the open source community through the mailing list.