Of course! Granted one of the two requires that we maintain a table of data that is updated continuously and has many significant global variants and the other is a fairly static definition that can be traced back to a (relatively) deterministic set of bit patterns.
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 5 Jun 2011, at 03:19, Paul Davis wrote: > >> Or we write our own code to make HTTP requests (Which isn't out of the >> question) and remove the curl dependency altogether. > > Can we also write our own unicode collation code? :) > > Cheers > Jan > -- > > >> >> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 4 Jun 2011, at 22:10, Paul Davis wrote: >>> >>>> Its already a soft dependency. If curl isn't found all that happens is >>>> that you can't run ./test/javascript/run after you build it. >>> >>> Which means curl is a hard dependency if you want to run the JS tests >>> that we intend to move from the browser into CLI JS tests, right? >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jan >>> -- >>> >>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Chris Anderson <jch...@apache.org> wrote: >>>>> This sparks another thought that we could have a ./configure directive >>>>> that says --no-curl or something. Since we only need curl for purposes >>>>> of running the developer test suite. >>>>> >>>>> Chris >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Arash Bizhan zadeh <aras...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> I am trying to compile couch on RH enterprise. The official RH package >>>>>> for >>>>>> curl is 7.15, but Couch needs 7.18. I would like to know what is the best >>>>>> way to handle this? Is there any specific reason that Couch depends on >>>>>> 7.18? Can the dependency be downgraded to 7.15? >>>>>> Can anybody advise me on how to handle this specific dependency and other >>>>>> dependencies ( i.e Erlang) please? >>>>>> >>>>>> thanks, >>>>>> -arash >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Chris Anderson >>>>> http://jchrisa.net >>>>> http://couchbase.com >>>>> >>> >>> > >
