On 9/25/2012 10:02 AM, Dale Harvey wrote:
On 25 September 2012 14:39, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Dale Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:
Just wanted to chime in on a few points
I think Couch should definitely ship with a tool to upload a design doc,
I
think we pretty much all agreed on that in Boston, its not even
particular
to couchapps but a fairly basic requirement for anyone that has to manage
their map reduce code.
I do have (a lot) of hesitation about the python filesystem mapping, I
have
dozens of applications on my laptop currently with the following layout,
I
would suggest it is a canonical layout
+ myproject
+ index.html
+ style
+ myproject.css
+ img
That would imply that a couch app is just a simple HTML5 apps. People
tend to not use sometimes shows and lists, but this just because we
are for now using an inefficient way to handle the javascript
evaluation. This is something from the past and I don't want that we
live in the past. At the boston summit it was the same reaction people
think couchapps as something frozen that can't be improved.
It doesnt imply that, it just ensures support for it. the node couchapp
(and kanso?) both support uploading plain directories into attachments as
well as adding sub directories with the extended couch specific data (like
map / reduces etc)
Yeah, I wasn't meaning to imply that the current couchapp.py directory
layout be the *only* way of putting stuff into a design doc. I've often
wanted to just throw whatever my current directory is into a doc as
attachments and/or JSON bits. Perhaps that's all the baseline
implementation really needs to do.
Imo the couchapp fs should represent the ddoc structure.
If a Design Doc is what's expected as output, then I think the current
couchapp.py format has what's needed. couchapp.py itself needs further
extension to support multiple docs and "attach these files to this
couchdb doc" but that's for other threads. :)
So it will be
easy to extend the features later. And improve the one that are
inefficient right now. And I do think that couchapps should be more
than simple and limited html5 apps. It's important imo to improve
current features and add new one. For example having the possibility
to use the couchapps at the server level. Just like redis script for
example. etc.
- benoît
