Thanks Robert, Benoit!

Our somewhat unwritten policy is definitely to try hard to push changes 
upstream.

Cheers
Jan
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On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:15 , Bob Dionne <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 10, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Bob Dionne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Benoit,
>>> 
>>> I made that ibrowse commit. I'm not sure what the process is with respect 
>>> to pushing this upstream. At Cloudant we maintain  a fork of ibrowse that 
>>> also seems to track couchdb changes to ibrowse as well. I'm happy to handle 
>>> it however you see fit.
>>> 
>>> I think this is where the rebar component based approach works well. It 
>>> enables independent development of the components. Switching to a newer 
>>> version is just changing a line in rebar.config
>>> 
>> 
>> I agree, this is the best way to handle that for temporary changes.
>> But we should also send the patch upstream so it can be integrated.
> 
> Ok, I'll submit a pull request. This change was just an upgrade to use some 
> new BIFs so they may not be accepted if support for older erlang versions is 
> still required
> 
> 
> 
>> If
>> we don't we will have to manage our own fork and upgrades from
>> upstream may be difficult at some point.
>> 
>> btw are the cloudant for ibrowse (& mochiweb?) in sync with current
>> version in couch? If yes I could probably use them as a temporary
>> solution as well.
>> 
>> - benoƮt
>> 
> 

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