Partial change to show better versioning

.gitignore

@@ -26,4 +26,6 @@ erl_crash.dump
 /release
 
 # Also ignore temp files created during testing
-**/test/tmp
+**/test/tmp
+
+elixir-ls-dist.tar

Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#
+# Simple makefile for distribution and installation
+#
+INSTALL_DIR ?= ${HOME}/.local/share/elixir-ls
+
+.PHONY: dist install
+
+dist:
+	tar cvf elixir-ls-dist.tar config apps mix.exs
+
+install: dist
+	mkdir -p ${INSTALL_DIR}
+	tar xvCf ${INSTALL_DIR} elixir-ls-dist.tar
+	cp ${INSTALL_DIR}/apps/elixir_ls_utils/priv/* ${INSTALL_DIR}

apps/elixir_ls_utils/priv/language_server.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Launches the language server. This script must be in the same directory as the compiled .ez archives.
 
 [ -f "$HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh" ] && . "$HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh"
 
@@ -13,8 +12,18 @@ readlink_f () {
   fi
 }
 
-SCRIPT=$(readlink_f $0)
-SCRIPTPATH=`dirname $SCRIPT`
-export ERL_LIBS="$SCRIPTPATH:$ERL_LIBS"
+version=$(elixir -v|grep ^Elixir| sed 's/Elixir \(.*\) (compiled with Erlang\/OTP \(.*\))/\1-\2/')
+
+target_dir=~/.cache/elixir-ls/$version
+
+if [ ! -d $target_dir ]; then
+  mkdir -p $target_dir
+  cp -r . $target_dir
+  cd $target_dir
+  mix do deps.get, compile, elixir_ls.release -o .
+  rm -rf apps config deps _build mix.* *.sh *.bat
+fi
+
+export ERL_LIBS="$target_dir:$ERL_LIBS"
 
 elixir -e "ElixirLS.LanguageServer.CLI.main()"