I agree with Mark H., if something really needs to be done in that direction (and I'm not sure about that) I'd rather prefer a callback/hook system where external modules could be plugged.
Sorry for starting to post here with a negative post. Thanks for reading Paolo On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Hammond<[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/07/2009 4:08 PM, Chris Anderson wrote: >> >> I've just pushed some work based on Jason Davies' cookie-auth branch >> to my github: >> >> http://github.com/jchris/couchdb/tree/jd-cookie-auth >> >> This consolidates login, logout, and whoami to a /_session resource >> that supports POST, GET, and DELETE. >> >> One thing missing here is a /_utils/login.html interface that would >> also handle creating new accounts. >> >> Another is a general consensus around how admins grant roles to new >> users, set default roles, etc. >> >> Take a look at it and feel free to add patches. Tomorrow I plan to >> move to an svn branch, but I'll merge any git patches that come along, >> before moving to svn. > > This is starting to sound like feature-creep to me - isn't this better > served by a front-end tool? Maybe an erlang-based set of tools around couch > would be nice, but I like the concept of keeping couch lean-and-mean and > leaving many of these 'application' concepts outside the core. > > Hopefully helpfully... > > Mark. > -- "When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?" Chuck Palahniuk http://hungryblank.deviantart.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/hungryblank/
