On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jan 31, 2013, at 15:52 , Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Paul Davis < > [email protected] > >>> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> That whole process sounds like not a lot of fun. > >>> > >> > >> Right. That is kind of my point. CouchDB is a JavaScript thing, and > >> nowadays people have a very well-adopted and well-understood JavaScript > >> engine on their computers. Maybe it should just use that. > >> > >> > >> > > couchdb is not a javascript thing, This is a database in which one and > the > > default engine for M/R is using the language javascript. > > > > Not all developers have nodejs installed. None of my servers have it. > > The question is not if you server have it, but whether you could install a > compatible version easily. > > I’d love to hear if you or others are not covered by > > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager > > > Well this is the question somehow. Today when I release rcouch or modified bigcouch releases I can build them statically. I then only distribute the release without any other dependencies than the system and without requiring more rights than a user have most of the time. If not I have to make sure I have the correct nodejs etc. Also the point is that nodejs isn't so widely deployed or already insyaled that some say. - benoît
