On 29 Jun 2011, at 18:12, Paul Davis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 01:08, Paul Davis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> *Nothing* should change on anything that isn't trunk. >> >> You mean that 1.1 will never support SpiderMonkey 1.8.5? That would >> kind of suck. >> > > Its a fairly non-trivial patch as demonstrated by how long it took to > even get into trunk. I don't think its proper fodder for a bug fix > release. Also, not supporting 1.8.5 will motivate people to upgrade > CouchDB as well.
Except if people have trouble installing / upgrading CouchDB, it leaves a bad taste. I'd rather not put users between a rock (1.7-based SpiderMonkey version) and a hard place (CouchDB only supporting 1.8.5 and up) Cheers Jan -- > >>> Since 1.2 isn't more than a reference to trunk, there's not much (IMO) >>> keeping us from dropping our support for everything pre-1.8.5 (except >>> being nice to users I guess). >> >> Doesn't that depend on when 1.2 comes out? 1.8.5 is not that old. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dirkjan >>
