Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-10-01 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
On 29 September 2012 13:43, Hans J Schroeder h...@cloudno.de wrote: Hi, It would be great to have a universal, standardized build environment for CouchDB and its variants. Additionally we should offer prebuilt packages because the average user likes to start using CouchDB without having to

Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-10-01 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: Voilà, hopefully this thread can be a good start for merging rcouch, bigcouch apache couchdb and will ease merge of the other features imo. As a distributor, the most important deficiency in today's release tarballs

Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-10-01 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
On 1 October 2012 14:57, Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: Voilà, hopefully this thread can be a good start for merging rcouch, bigcouch apache couchdb and will ease merge of the other features imo. As a

Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-10-01 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Dave Cottlehuber d...@jsonified.com wrote: Seems like the right thing for couchdb to do, but I'm not sure I understand this fully. Do you mean that you'd like to (say) ./configure --use-this-snappy-library --use-that-other-library approach, and as a distributor

Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-10-01 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: Voilà, hopefully this thread can be a good start for merging rcouch, bigcouch apache couchdb and will ease merge of the other features imo.

Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-10-01 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: Voilà, hopefully this thread can be a good start for merging

Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-10-01 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure what you mean. spidermonkey is choosed on the system while snappy is build statically if it's what you mean. My proposal for package maintainer is to use the autotools for that. Which would solve all of their

Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-10-01 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Dave Cottlehuber d...@jsonified.com wrote: Seems like the right thing for couchdb to do, but I'm not sure I understand this fully. Do you mean that you'd like to (say) ./configure

Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-10-01 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Dave Cottlehuber d...@jsonified.com wrote: Done: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Build_Process +1, and many thanks for the excellent summary Benoit. Thanks! Selfishly, I'd much prefer the proposed approach than the current one. The reality is that autotools

Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-10-01 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure what you mean. spidermonkey is choosed on the system while snappy is build statically if it's what you mean. My proposal for package

Re: OTP releases and autotools

2012-09-29 Thread Hans J Schroeder
Hi, It would be great to have a universal, standardized build environment for CouchDB and its variants. Additionally we should offer prebuilt packages because the average user likes to start using CouchDB without having to hassle with the build. As CouchDB is so great for syncing with mobile