On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 04:43:00PM -0400, Damien Katz wrote: > For the backup tools, I was hoping for something using shell scripts and > CURL, but I'm not sure thats possible though without enhancements to to > the HTTP server. I don't want to add a long term dependency on Python > just for backup tools.
IMO, Python is pretty pervasive. Adding it as a dependency wouldn't be Too Bad considering the benefits it could afford us. The first thing I could do is rewrite the couchdb/couchjs scripts for robustness and to make use of getopt's --long-options which the bourn shell is unable to offer in a portable way. -- Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/
