bitwalker/distillery

Distillery is an Elixir release management tool that provides a complete toolkit for building, configuring, and upgrading applications. It handles the entire release lifecycle through Mix tasks for initialization, artifact generation, and cleanup, while also supporting hot-upgrades via appup generation. The system ensures cross-platform reliability by managing Unix and Windows startup scripts and daemon processes, backed by extensive integration and unit tests.

The project was renamed to Distillery and marked as deprecated in favor of Elixir's built-in release tooling. The codebase underwent a significant architectural shift, removing the legacy release system and introducing a new set of Mix tasks and cross-platform scripts to manage releases and hot upgrades.

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This period focused on rewriting the release management scripts to use modern CLI tools and PowerShell, replacing older batch and escript-based approaches for improved reliability and cross-platform support. Simultaneously, the project established a robust testing framework by adding comprehensive unit and integration test suites, alongside new test fixtures and helper utilities to validate the release system's behavior.

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