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 -- > > 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 >
