On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Kai Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sorry; I hit the send button before completing my post. I was going to > say "...and that extern-handler capability"... is a rip-snorter of a great > idea. Its presence has definitely saved me weeks of work.
It'd be really cool to see a blog post that goes into your use case. I hadn't thought of Couch as controlling a bunch of externals but it makes perfect sense. The more we know about how you're using it the better we can help you make it for you. >I've made one or > two tentative changes to the Erlang code locally - if I find myself becoming > more proficient/confident at it - or discover anything other way I might be > useful in helping CouchDB become more Windows-friendly, I'll certainly jump > in to help. That'd be awesome. > > On 3/06/2009 22:05, Kai Griffin wrote: >> >> I've been using CouchDB (0.9.0) on windows for the past couple of months. >> I switched from Linux so that I could use a large amount of legacy C++ >> code, re-worked into a series of little executables, which are launched by >> couch's extern handler to perform certain tasks. For my purposes, CouchDB >> on windows has been operating very well, and that extern-handler capability >> >> On 3/06/2009 20:58, Nathan Stott wrote: >>> >>> I'm mostly a windows user. I run couch on my Ubuntu laptop at the moment >>> but would like to try getting it running on my windows box that I dev on. >>> I'll read through the wiki and give it a shot. >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:27:16PM -0400, Damien Katz wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Ideally, what we'd end up with would be a completely automated Windows >>>>> build system that builds a complete installer and supports XP, Server >>>>> 2003 & 2007, Vista, 7, etc. And we'd support running as a service and >>>>> as >>>>> a user process and have nice Visual Studio integration. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I would like to see a Windows user sending us regular patches, and >>>> getting >>>> stuck >>>> in with the development and support of CouchDB from this perspective. >>>> After >>>> a >>>> while, I would want this person to become a full committer. I really >>>> don't >>>> think >>>> we should be claiming Windows support until at least one of the core >>>> developers >>>> is a genuine Windows user. >>>> >>>> If you need pointers on where to get stuck in, I'm your guy. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> > > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
