Needing node.js to build couchdb? I hate that.
On 1 November 2012 11:46, Simon Metson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 11:35, Alexander Shorin wrote: > > > Because it's additional semi justified dependencies and whole project > > goes far away from couchapp concept, imho. > > I don't think it does. In fact I'd say it emphasises the flexibility of > couch apps and how they play nicely with other tools ("hey look, you can > use this database with the toolset I'm used to from jquery"). > > If Erica will be bundled tool out of CouchDB box, better to dance around > him. > > I'd rather use something that exists today and evaluate erica when it is > included with CouchDB and has the necessary feature set in the future. > > With grunt we can get consistent build environments, with erica we'd > either have people installing tools (linters, less compiler, minify-ers > etc) manually/ad-hoc, have to rely on something like npm (and if we're > doing that, why not use grunt?) or build it ourselves (eurgh!). > > Cheers > Simon > >
