On Mar 14, 2013, at 16:56 , Wendall Cada <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think this should wait for sure.
> 
> Just a note, Gentoo will often have something new available, but 16B is not 
> marked stable yet. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-lang/erlang
> 
> Additionally, the Arch and homebrew issues aside, I don't think anyone will 
> have to worry about this issue for quite some time yet.

The brew folks are manyfold though. Especially people who want to check out 
CouchDB to play with. I feel we should get this sorted soonish, but I agree 
with not rushing this into 1.3.0, but make sure we are in a comfortable 
position to ship 1.3.1 quickly.

Cheers
Jan
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> 
> Wendall
> 
> On 03/14/2013 03:56 AM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Do we, or do we not, include R16B support in 1.3.0?
>> 
>> I am not in favour of releasing this in 1.3.0 as the code will have
>> had no real-world usage in couchdb at all. But I'd propose we get a
>> 1.3.1 out the door as soon as we are comfortable with it.
>> 
>> NB I amended the JIRA ticket as blocker for the moment, will update
>> after we reach a consensus.
>> 
>> # background
>> 
>> - A number of bleeding edge distros (arch linux, gentoo, OSX homebrew)
>> already have R16B as default.
>> - Our mochiweb library is old & atm requires parameterised modules
>> which were removed[1] in R16B.
>> - Steve Vinoski patched[2] Mochiweb to support R16B and the resulting
>> 2.4.2 tag of Mochiweb includes it
>> - I've done part of a branch[3] to start this but probably won't
>> finish it until next week; not all tests pass yet[4]
>> 
>> [1]: http://www.erlang.org/download_release/18
>> [2]: 
>> https://github.com/mochi/mochiweb/commit/23a1d48665c615a6f4751041deedd3925a3e00f8
>> [3]: 
>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;a=tree;hb=1696-update-mochiweb-2-4-2
>> [4]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1696
>> 
>> A+
>> Dave
> 

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