Thanks Paul, was just going to respond about /rel My two cents:
I think what would be nice is to enable the use of rebar in downstream projects, that are built on top of couchdb. I've been able to keep my bitstore[1] hack pretty much in sync with a given couchdb version with some simple tweaks in the Makefile. What would be ideal is to add couchdb as a dependency in rebar.config and type ./config and have it pull couchdb 1.0 or 1.5.6 or whatever. If this can be done so that couchdb is still usable and build-able as a standalone tool, using the existing autotools, without turning it into a hairball, then that would be real sweet, kudos to the brave soul that pulls that off. In theory bigcouch could also work that way, though bigcouch is technically a fork of couchdb as it requires a few tweaks to make couchdb a distributed database. [1] https://github.com/bdionne/bitstore On Jun 21, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 21 Jun 2011, at 15:25, Paul Davis wrote: >> >>> The problem with 'doing it once' is that its not entirely that >>> straight forward unless you want to have a single absolutely massive >>> commit. And that's something I wanted to avoid. >> >> Can we break this work down into logical chunks? >> >> We could transition the source over in that way. >> >>> I'm not at all certain what you mean by this. There should not be a >>> c_src directory at the top level of the source tree. Nor libs or priv >>> or include. As we went over previously Noah had some pretty general >>> constraints for what the source tree should look like. >> >> Glad you are on board with this, Paul. >> >>> I'm not against a rel folder somewhere but I doubt it'd go at the top >>> level of the source tree. Maybe in share? >> >> What does this directory even do pls??!?!??!?!11 >> >> > > Its used to make releases (Erlang world, not to be confused with our > releases) that can be distributed to users. This is also required for > the machinery that does hot code swapping and other things. > > Here's an example one from BigCouch: > > https://github.com/cloudant/bigcouch/tree/master/rel
