Up and running from the tarball on my wife's MacBook. The only snag was OS X 10.5.3's breakage of MacPort's Erlang. Rebuilt Erlang without Hipe, and everything worked great. I've added instructions on overcoming the Erlang build problem to the wiki.
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/InstallingOnOSX I vote in favor of the release. -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
