2008/8/14 Jan Lehnardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Aug 13, 2008, at 11:53, Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen wrote: > >> 2008/8/2 Brad King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> Great idea for prototyping. Just keep in mind performance suffers >>> quite a bit for view index time on VM vs. real. Not sure if you were >>> planning on running in production that way, but wouldn't recommend it. >> >> OTOH using Windows in production for a server isn't the easiest, >> cheapest nor safest thing to do anyway. >> So developping on a VMWare image, (perhaps it's even wiser to go with >> a server, console-only version). > > The idea here is not to provide something for a production system. > There are folks who are on Windows and actually do like it or can't > switch for whatever reason and a native build would be the least > possible hassle for these to try out CouchDB. > > Frankly, if somebody would come and say "Install Windows[1] in > VMware and then try our awesome project", I would pass. > > In my opinion, a native Windows build has its value and it would > be nice if somebody could pull it together.
You have a point there. For the try-before-you-buy crowd, a windows build would be very usefull. I was more referring to the next phase, when somebody would actually decide to use CouchDB. In that case i would try to rely on software stacks in their 'native' habitat. But that's just my preference. Greetings, Ralf N. > > Cheers > Jan > -- > [1] Or any other system that is complete alien to me > > >> >> >> Adding bonus-effects: you can throw the whole server configuration in >> source-control ;-) >> When releasing producting ready version you just release the whole >> server image ready to deploy. >> >> I use linux as a desktop, but i too am using virtualized images, that >> I deploy when ready. >> It depends on the sort of project, but if you need to things like >> automatically convert certain uploaded file-types, etc. having the >> whole server and installed programs under source-control really is the >> way to go. >> >> Greetings, >> Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen >> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Demetrius Nunes >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> This is what I am using: >>>> http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1224 >>>> >>>> rgds. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Jonathan Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Makes sense.... why didn't I think of that. Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> j >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Demetrius Nunes >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Same here. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Ronny Hanssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I choose to set up a vmware image and do it in kubuntu. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I just got the feeling that building it for Windows was looking for >>>>>>> trouble... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ~Ronny >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Jonathan Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Has anyone got CouchDB successfully built on Windows? I feel silly >>>>>>>> asking this but for better or worse Windows is what I know. On the >>>>>>>> other hand, the abiliy to get it going easily on Windows would open >>>>>>>> it >>>>>>>> up to a whole new audience to try out. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have tried following the directions posted here >>>>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/InstallingOnWindows, but I can't seem >>>>>>>> to find binaries for SpiderMonkey anywhere on the Mozilla site, nor >>>>>>>> have I had any luck compiling it from source (the *.mdp file is too >>>>>>>> old to open in Visual Studio and NMAKE craps out with some >>>>>>>> unintelliglible error). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have also searched the archives of this mailing list but haven't >>>>>>>> come across anything relevant. Any ideas would be a great help. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> jon >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> ____________________________ >>>>>> http://www.demetriusnunes.com >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ____________________________ >>>> http://www.demetriusnunes.com >>>> >>> >> > >
