On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Peter Lemenkov <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/11/26 Robert Newson <[email protected]>: >> pretty sure ibrowse and mochiweb have important tweaks, using versions >> without them is broken. > > I'm not sure about mochiweb (since couchdb contains very old svn > snapshot, and it's hard to check for the differences) but regarding > ibrowse - couchdb is only 1 patch behind the 2.1.0. I'll plan to > backport in into 2.1.0 shipped in Fedora. > > So > > a) These libraries are not so different from upstream ones (at least > true for ibrowse) > b) CouchDB in Fedora isn't so deadly broken as someone of you may think > > In fact I'm watching very closely the development of both ibrowse and > mochiweb so I'm aware of the changes made or just proposed by CouchDB > folks. >
Please correct me if am I wrong (actually... :D) but what Peter is doing is pretty common for packaging. And in the end, there is a test suite to make sure everything works. ;-) If it doesn't catch an issue, it might need an improvement, or two. Till
