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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-1012:
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The suggestion was --elib-dir over --lib-dir because --lib-dir might be assumed
to point at /usr/local/lib and it was hoped that --elib-dir would be recognized
as the place where developers should install their erlang modules.
As to:
"I'd drop pid-file, uri-file and all the autotools stuff because it's not
relevant for developing _modules_ for couchdb."
Randall was focusing on developers writing extensions for CouchDB (which was
the original genesis of this feature). Dropping those suggestions focuses back
on the original motivation for this discussion.
The pid-file and uri-file are part of the suggestion because they're part of
the larger idea of a tool that sysadmin/packagers/developers can use to locate
important bits of a CouchDB installation.
I have no specific input on including or excluding a --doc-dir switch.
> Utility to help plugin developers manage paths
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: COUCHDB-1012
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1012
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Build System
> Reporter: Randall Leeds
> Assignee: Randall Leeds
> Fix For: 1.2
>
> Attachments:
> 0001-add-couch-config-file-used-to-ease-the-build-of-plug.patch,
> 0001-add-couch-config-file-used-to-ease-the-build-of-plug.patch,
> 0001-support-pkg-config-for-plugins-COUCHDB-1012.patch
>
>
> 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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