On 18/02/2009, at 3:58 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
Hey,
remember the Futon mail earlier? Yeah, there's another project
that need love: CouchDBX*.
*http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/142-CouchDBX-Revival.html
My idea of CouchDBX is this:
A single package that can be downloaded and run to evaluate
CouchDB.
That sounds simple, but the devil is in the details. The first version
was hand-crafted and what I did there needs automation now.
Several people have expanded the ObjC/Cocoa interface into
interesting directions and I'd like to see this work continued.
I've automated this, the relevent part being in my memetic project: http://github.com/AntonyBlakey/memetic/tree/master
. Memetic builds location independent erlang and couchdb, and has
the additional libraries so that it can run on OSX without macports
and without any additional dependencies.
Memetic is about Ruby, but that's not an impediment - it builds the
binaries by downloading the relevant tars, building with appropriate
options and then munging some paths in files to achieve location
independence.
I think the building requires no more Ruby than is present by default
in 10.5. The binaries are currently more isolated than strictly
required because I wanted to support multiple simultaneous installs
that have different version dependencies.
This BTW was automated as part of building a generic client. I have a
client who will probably pay someone to do the Win32 version.
Antony Blakey
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