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The EDoc improvements are a long time coming, and the halfword emulator may drastically reduce the amount of memory needed for some people. Erlang improves at

• icey 16y ago
  Could you (or anyone else) explain Erlang's release number scheme? Is R14 the 14th major release and B02 a minor release? Is there some other meaning in their numbering? (Sorry, my Google-fu is failing miserably on this topic)
  • nivertech 16y ago
    You can look in this table (2nd column): http://erlang.org/download.html http://erlang.org/download.html
  • matthiasl 16y ago
    R means release 14 is the major release number B is the minor release 'number'. By convention, 'A' is not considered ready for production, whereas 'B' and later are. 02 is the 'patch level', i.e. an even more minor release number This scheme, or at least the part up to the 'B', was used all over the place in Ericsson while I was there (a decade ago). I just pulled the battery off my phone to see if it was still used and it doesn't seem to be. One of my previous mobile phones had R1F on the sticker behind the battery...
    • icey 16y ago
      This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!