On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Russell Branca <[email protected]>wrote:
> I understand your apprehension, however, the primary ways of minifying > javascript these days is with a javascript lib, or with a java lib. > > It should be noted that the node.js dependency is strictly as a build > tool, and not actually required for building couchdb. We could make it > an optional dependency, and just have a default compiled version in > the codebase at all times, allowing you to skip the node.js dependency > if you just want the standard configuration. For a vanilla couchdb > install, there shouldn't actually be any changes necessary to the > compiled app, so this could be a reasonable approach. > > -Russell > ^ What Russell wrote... my thoughts precisely. It's nonsensical that this has become such a divisive topic. Development aids, arguably indispensable ones, don't translate verbatim to shipping dependencies. Now, how about yeoman?! > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Needing node.js to build couchdb? I hate that. >
