+1 On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 5:35 PM Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > I'm working this week with Paul Davis on our new Jenkins CI > infrastructure, which is coming along nicely. One of the changes I'm > planning to make is that our PR tests will run against only 3 versions > of Erlang: > > 1. The oldest we support (right now, 19.3.6.latest) > 2. The version we currently ship with our binary distros & Docker > (right now, 20.3.8.latest) > 3. The very latest version we support (right now, 22.2) > > In preparing the containers for CI testing, it's turning out to be very > difficult to build Erlang 19.* anymore on modern Linuxes. This is > because they ship with OpenSSL 1.1+, and 19.* cannot build against > anything newer than OpenSSL 1.0. > > I can jump through a huge number of hoops for this...or we can just drop > Erlang 19 support for CouchDB 3.0 and require Erlang 20. (Note we > blacklist a number of versions of Erlang 20.) I would then replace > 19.3.6.latest with 20.3.8.11 [1]. > > I think this is the right thing to do for the project, and I don't > expect any vetos, but because this is a deprecation, I'm posting it here > before merging the change to rebar.config.script (and Jenkinsfile). > > Let me know if you object. > > -Joan > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/rebar.config.script#L44 > >
