opinion E: add a DSL to create views and improve the protocol for other cases.
- benoît On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > This whole branch is an experiment. That is the main point. > > My **tentative** position is that V8 is a waste of time. We should use > Node.js, not V8. In other words, we should not change couchjs to link > against libv8.so instead of libmozjs.so. Instead, we should **remove** the > couchjs binary and build a 100% compatible node version. Again, this is my > *suspicion* but I want to explore it more. > > Embedding V8 is, roughly, the same work as embedding SpiderMonkey. It does > not change much. We still depend on an obscure VM with a quirky build > system. > > Maybe we should not embed JavaScript anymore. Maybe we should just depend > on Node.js being installed. Compare these two statements to a new user: > > Option A: "To build CouchDB, you must have the the SpiderMonkey libjs > library installed, version x.y.z" > Option B: "To build CouchDB, you must have the V8 libraries installed, > version x.y.z" > Option C: "To run CouchDB, you must have Python on your system" > > Everybody has Python installed! Yay! > > So now, just substitute "Node.js" for "Python" and it is a similar > situation. IMO in a couple years Node.js will be nearly as ubiquitous. > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is an experiment just to see how things feel. I want to see how it > > > feels to stop saying "CouchDB requires > > > libjs185/xulrunner/spidermonkey/whatever" and start saying "CouchDB > > > requires Node.js." > > > > What do we need Node.js for, over just v8? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dirkjan > > > > > > -- > Iris Couch >
