Utility to help plugin developers manage paths
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Key: COUCHDB-1012
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1012
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Build System
Reporter: Randall Leeds
Developers may want to write plugins (like GeoCouch) for CouchDB. Many hooks in
the configuration system allow loading arbitrary Erlang modules to handle
various internal tasks, but currently there is no straightforward and portable
way for developers of these plugins to discover the location of the CouchDB
library files.
Two options that have been proposed are to use pkg-config or install a separate
script that could be invoked (e.g. as couch-config --erl-libs) to discover
important CouchDB installation paths.
As far as I know the loudest argument against pkg-config is lack of support for
Windows.
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