Hi,
I'm building the first new product for my business using couch, we're using
cloudant.com for persistance on our first builds - Between scouring the
documentation
online as soon as its been updated and chatting to developers in #couchdb on
irc
I've found that alot of focus is on 0.11, due to its newer features - Yet there
is no stable release?!
The issue here is two fold, the barrier to entry is raised significantly higher
than it should be:
- CouchDB can be a very lengthy install from source (Thanks to erlang)
- There are no nightly binaries
As a follower of the macruby project, I've found that I log more bugs because
I'm able to
install a nightly of macruby without much of an investment to keep up with the
details of LLVM
and its other dependencies.
http://macruby.icoretech.org/
As for the 'binary' - While I was evaluating other NoSQL solutions I found that
mongo is available
in binaries. You're able to download it, untar it and execute it straight away.
(We're talking less than 1 minute to have a running server)
I believe that if these problems are solved that there will be a huge influx of
users who are able
to test edge code, file bug reports and feel closer to the development without
going to the lengths
of reading commits to the source tree.
Please consider this as an urgent item for completion.
Very relaxed,
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Ben Schwarz
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