The install docs also refer to building for development. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Stephen Prater <[email protected]>wrote:
> I might have an objection to that. Homebrew links into your system in > slightly unpredictable ways - I certainly don't mind them being ADDED, or > even recommended, but I think that purging all references to MacPorts might > be excessive. > > On the other hand, how hard is it to figure out how to type 'sudo port > install couchdb'? > > > > On Oct 27, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote: > > I just setup a new laptop and used homebrew to install the CouchDB deps >> (spidermonkey & erlang). >> >> Not only was it super fast and painless but I got a newer spidermonkey >> (1.8.3) which is something like 30x faster for most of the stuff we do >> with >> the view server but I also didn't have to pass any special parameters to >> ./configure. >> >> Anyone object to me remove all references to MacPorts in our Mac install >> instructions and replacing with homebrew? >> >> -Mikeal >> > >
