Is there a recommended way to "bootstrap" an Erlang distribution? I would like to run erlang on the bunch of machines where I do not have root elevation nor development tool-set (no compilers etc ...) . My thinking was to pre-package (on the machine with the same architecture) as much as I can before. What are the minimal requirements for an usable Erlang environment?
You can use the different erlware tools. Using the latest Sinan, you can even create a standalone release with the erts bundled.