On 1 October 2012 14:57, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote: >> Voilà, hopefully this thread can be a good start for merging rcouch, >> bigcouch & apache couchdb and will ease merge of the other features imo. > > As a distributor, the most important deficiency in today's release > tarballs is the fact that pretty much all the dependencies are > bundled, with no convenient way to use system copies. IMO this should > be done especially for C libraries like snappy and spidermonkey, but > preferably also for the Erlang parts with an alive upstream. I haven't > tracked it to closely, but I always get the impression that CouchDB > just vendors upstream and isn't that good about making sure patches > end up upstream as well (and tracking what versions correspond to the > dependencies shipped with a given CouchDB tarball). > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan
Seems like the right thing for couchdb to do, but I'm not sure I understand this fully. Do you mean that you'd like to (say) ./configure --use-this-snappy-library --use-that-other-library approach, and as a distributor you would be deciding at that point which OTP release & other dependencies are required, to build into your rpm or deb packaging tool? A+ Dave
