On 19 April 2012 15:37, Carlton Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > * I'm Carlton, I'm new here. :-)
Welcome!! > * I'm a long-time user of CouchDBX but I see that's disappeared for the now. > * I also see on http://couchdb.apache.org a "Coming soon? Why don’t you > contribute one?" for the Mac OS X download link. > > I'm relatively new to Erlang — beginning to contribute to CouchDB is my way > of making sure I get to know it properly — but my day job is in Objective-C. > > — I'd be very happy to be part of a group to fill in the blank. Fantastic! We have a number of other interested parties (me @davecottlehuber @daleharvey & some others) but I've got a couple of other bits to finish up first, (including getting a bigger SSD to store all my couch stuff. > 1. It would be nice to resurrect CouchDBX — or build a replacement if that's > not possible. This should be very doable using https://github.com/couchbase/couchdbx-app If you're keen, I suggest you start off with getting this to work & then report back on issues, here or IRC for quick questions - both #couchdb and #couchdb-dev are good. The erlang / couch bits are well understood and will fall into place quickly I think with some help. > 2. For a vanilla command-line install, are people just using homebrew? — or, > what's needed here? (Again I'm new, but keen.) Homebrew is good, I am struggling to get the recipe committed while we sort out an underlying erlang/openssl issue. In the meantime follow my gist https://gist.github.com/2147079 > My hope in writing this mail is that there's someone who's thinking, I could > do the Mac build but for {A,B...N}... My lame excuses are lack of: (a) disk space (b) money, see (a) A+ Dave
