I agree, an addition is great, we can leave the MacPorts part in with a disclaimer that brew is more recommended.
Personally, I found MacPorts to be the less predictable system, but whatever works for folks. Cheers Jan -- On 28 Oct 2010, at 00:28, Stephen Prater wrote: > I'd be happy with a disclaimer like "If you have an objection to installing > CouchDB through Homebrew, it is also available within the MacPorts tree." > > But, since the ports instructions are substantially incorrect, I don't see a > problem with removing them. > > On Oct 27, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote: > >> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >
