On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Robert Samuel Newson > <rnew...@apache.org>wrote: > >> Definitely need to preserve R14 compatibility, that’s still the most >> stable recent series (as long as you don’t use R14B02)… >> > > > I disagree. R14 hasn't been updated since more than 2 years, and isn't a > supported version by the Erlang community, R17 will be out sometimes during > the spring. Latest versions added many fixes to SSL, improved the > scheduling and memory usage, the NIF support and added a lot of > improvements to the binary API. Also latest stables version of different > distributions don't have any R14 any more (even RHEL). > > Imo we should upgrade as soon as possible to a version > R15 if we want to > follow the latest changes and be used by others. It is also expected that > all external libraries upgrade to a more recent version and not a surprise > that the latest version of mochiweb increased the requirements too. If > someone still want to use an old Erlang version then it will have to use > the latest version of couchdb that support it that's all. But a new major > version should make sure to use the latest stable and supported version. > > - benoit > >> >> Not to say that using the latest version of Erlang will allows us to provide to our users features using the latest API and enhancements from Erlang.
