The recent thread [1] on user@ brings up the point that we've let some incompatibilities with our minimum Erlang VM requirement sneak into trunk. The email highlights the use of the re module in a handful of places through trunk. Now I'm not going to point fingers (at Adam and Jason!) but it does bring up the discussion on whether its time to update our Erlang requirement.
AFAIK the minimum Erlang requirement is now R12B5 which has been out for some time. I'd be completely fine with updating our dependency but its the sort of thing I think we should probably put out for consensus before changing. Anyone have opinions against upgrading the Erlang VM requirement? I would be most swayed by what's in package managers and readily available to install. Also, a note on requiring the upgrade, I'm guessing this would either be best right before or right after a release. I'd probably go for before, just because the more releases we make, the longer their going to be around. But I'm open to being convinced otherwise. Paul Davis [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/200908.mbox/%[email protected]%3e
