[erlang-patches] Fwd: Add supervisor:start_child/3 to limit the number of children

[Siri Hansen]

sorry, forgot to copy the list...

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From: Siri Hansen <erlangsiri@REDACTED>
Date: 2015-01-16 14:07 GMT+01:00
Subject: Re: [erlang-patches] Add supervisor:start_child/3 to limit the
number of children
To: Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@REDACTED>




2015-01-16 13:06 GMT+01:00 Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@REDACTED>:

> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Siri Hansen wrote:
> > I'm happy to announce that in OTP-18, the supervisor API will be
> > improved to allow supervisor flags and childspecs declared as maps
> > (similar to
> > http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-patches/2012-January/002574.html,
> > except maps are used instead of proplists). This will allow for
> > additions to these data structures.
>
> To be totally clear, it will be optional and require 18.x, but
> existing code will still work, right?
>

That is correct! It was merged to master on November 6th - this is the
merge commit:
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/eeba41c3f9a56948d62de66065851f509ae02b43
- if you want to look at the details...
/siri
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