I would prefer to get #2, since not everyone uses distributed over SSL 
mode. Beside this it's better to stick with latest OTP release.
Second preference would be #4.

Fredrik Thulin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> What Erlang/OTP version should YXA 1.0 require?
> 
> Distributed Erlang over SSL is broken in R11B-3, R11B-4 and R11B-5. This 
> feature is needed if you have more than one YXA application, and want 
> their inter-node communication to be protected from eavesdropping.
> 
> A fix for this has been made available by Bruce Fitzsimons :
> 
>    http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2007-July/027879.html
> 
> I can't count on there being an Erlang/OTP R11B-6 with the fix before 
> EUC '07.
> 
> I see the following options :
> 
>    1) Release YXA 1.0 now, with a dependency on R11B-2.
> 
>    2) Release YXA 1.0 now, depending on R11B-5. Ship a patched version of
>       ssl_prim with it, that gets added first in the code path - thus
>       fixing the problem in R11B-5 (will break if a distro ships R11B-5
>       with some other change to ssl_prim).
> 
>    3) Release YXA 1.0 now, depending on R11B-2. Provide a patch that
>       accomplishes the same thing as option #2.
> 
>    4) Wait with YXA 1.0 until R11B-6 is released (and hope the problem is
>       fixed in R11B-6).
> 
> What do you think I should do? Number 1 and 3 are of course the easy 
> ones for me, if I still want to get YXA 1.0 out before EUC '07 (which I do).
> 
> /Fredrik
> 
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