On 18/02/2009, at 8:59 AM, Antony Blakey wrote:
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.
I'm interested in starting a project to build a generic GUI client
without Ruby and without CouchDB, into which CouchDB (and my
alternative) could be plugged.
I'm thinking that the best bet is a XUL application that includes
Erlang without optional plugs, such as icu and spidermonkey.
The benefit to this community is that I may have funding for some of
this, and it would be genetic deployment client for Erlang apps.
Antony Blakey
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