On 01/02/2009, at 4:33 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:
You keep talking about these modifications.
I supplied a github branch with the patch for plugins, and I provided
the ruby source for an external indexer. Hopefully "put up or shut up"
is satisfied :)
We're anxious to see your
db-name patch
I supplied a github branch with that patch. The view server was
changed after I did it, which requires re-working the patch, and there
were some other requests which I agreed to (slugs & slashes). The
transaction issue is more important to me, so I'm waiting to see if I
need to support a private branch for that before I revisit the unicode-
file-name code.
, and we've already added seq id to external.
When I posted the ruby indexer I noted that the full db-info is now
provided per request - subsequent discussion prompted the db UUID
thread idea. I haven't checked the code to determine the semantics of
the purge_seq field - it may be enough to *catch* purges, although I
think a purge hook would be a very useful optimization to ensure that
externals don't require a full sweep.
DB uuids
are an interesting topic as well, but more interesting is code.
I was providing a perspective for Martin Scholl, my point being that
what he wants is doable now, without having to make the canonical
store pluggable (which IMO is neither feasible nor desirable).
Even without DB uuids, external indexing is still a very useful model.
It's pretty flexible already, maybe just some path globs for `make
plugins` is all it would take to get a plugins/helpers convention into
the build. We could add starting of apps (crypto, ibrowse, etc) to
default.ini. Then you'd probably have everything you need to add new
modules to the couch system.
Yes, as I say, I supplied a gihub branch for using such modules. Even
with no other changes, it's useful right now, and laughably trivial.
As far as core modularity is concerned, I don't know if it's feasible
to patch that from outside the committers group because of the
coordination required. I may be wrong.
Antony Blakey
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