> But argument by assertion is neither helpful, meaningful, or polite. > > Curt is doing us a huge favour for us by spotting these problems, explaining > some of the possible solutions, and dedicating his personal time to evaluating > their suitability for the project.
Maybe its just me but I haven't the slightest what problem this thread is trying to solve. Why would we even think about removing our runtime dependencies from SVN? I know someone suggested it in thread this conversation forked from but I never read discussion about why this would be good or necessary. Unless the incubator finds some smoking gun in ibrowse (which I highly doubt given its popularity) or in erlang-oauth (which I highly doubt because its tiny) I don't see a reason to remove any code from SVN. If there is a valid issue that I missed along the way, then lets take a step back and see what we can do to address that. And to Maven: Its a huge dependency for something that could be done with curl (which is already a dependency). Its a huge social barrier to the sizable portion of our community that actively avoids Java. It doesn't as near as I can tell address any of the issues raised in the parent thread. Java dependencies creeping into the code would just be more barriers to get CouchDB running everywhere. And these are just the ones I can fit into short sentences. HTH, Paul Davis
