On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi, the mochiweb we're shipping in 1.1.0 has abandoned support for R12B05, 
>>> so we should revisit our minimum required Erlang version.  Do we have a 
>>> compelling reason for supporting anything below R13B04?  That release 
>>> introduces support for recursive type specifications, which are useful when 
>>> describing revision trees and JSON objects to dialyzer.
>>>
>>> Regards, Adam
>>
>> +1 for R13something.
>
> Paul, is there a NIF-based argument for a particular R13 release?  I know we 
> don't use NIFs in 1.1.x, but it'd be nice to limit the number of times we 
> have to bump.
>
> Adam

There's nothing major that I remember in the R13 series. Maybe a few
bug fixes or something, but I'd have to look.

The major NIF jump was with R14. For instance, integrating Emonk requires R14.

Also, NIF's are awesome.

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