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`gleam export otp-release` command

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#4,978 opened on Sep 15, 2025

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I thought we had an issue for this, but I couldn't find one!

Our current "erlang-shipment" is a poor imitation of a proper OTP release. Create a new command that creates these, and then we can deprecate the erlang-release command.

Documentation: https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/release_structure

Distillery has some nice info here: https://hexdocs.pm/distillery/2.0.0-rc.8/understanding_releases.html

Karlsson has some information here on OTP applications: https://github.com/karlsson/glite

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Study the Erlang release structure documentation and existing gleam export commands. Identify the necessary steps to generate a release directory and integrate with the compiler.
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