On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:42:14PM -0500, Robin B wrote: > REST and JSON are great for certain situations, but they should never > be hard coded into the datastore.
I disagree with this FWIW. REST is, quite fundamentally, a software architectural style, and one which brings it's own set of high level abstractions. It's not an implementation detail to be further abstracted away behind some public API. > >From a dependency perspective, CouchDB is becoming very heavy: > SpiderMonkey, Lucene, ICU ... Not sure who you were quoting here, but it's a bit misleading. Lucene is not a dependancy, and to some extent neither is SpiderMonkey. ICU is the only library that CouchDB requires and your suggestions would not do anything to change that situation. I am, however, in favour of a plug-in type system at some point. -- Noah Slater - The Apache Software Foundation <http://www.apache.org/>
