I use CouchDb only on Windows and, while an official Windows binary would be nice, I've never had any problem installing and updating from the ones in https://github.com/dch/couchdb/downloads, so it doesn't bother me much.
Nick North On 11 January 2012 14:37, Kevin R. Coombes <[email protected]>wrote: > I would strongly urge you to start providing binaries. > > I am very much in favor of trying to persuade Dave to contribute an > official Windows binary. I suspect that a great many people who might > think about getting started with Couch hesitate to do so because there is > no binary available. These are people who are interested in applying Couch > to get useful things done (while staying relaxed) but have absolutely no > interest in figuring out how to compile anything on their Windows machine. > > I include myself in this category. My desktop runs an Apache HTTPD server > (using the easy to find and install Windows binary from their download > page) as well as CouchDB. I use both of these servers for rapid development > and prototyping of potential applications before I hand them off to the > professional programmers and system administrators at our site. I feel > much more confident that I can keep the HTTPD server running and updated > than I can the CouchDB server. > > I have also been trying to convince some of my colleagues of the virtues > of using Couch; very few have taken me up on the suggestion to start using > it. I am convinvced that a lack of an easy-to-install _official_ Windows > binary is a major impediment to adoption. > > Kevin > > > On 1/9/2012 8:59 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > >> We do not provide binaries. What sort of thing were you hoping for? I am >> waiting on contact from Couchbase to see what they have to contribute back >> to the project in terms of packaging. Perhaps Dave, with his new committer >> bit, wants to contribute our first official Windows binary? >> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Riyad Kalla<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I know this discussion took place sometime after the last release; but >>> was >>> it decided which platform binaries would be provided for the upcoming >>> 1.2 >>> release to help ease adoption? >>> >>> -R >>> >>> >>>
