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Joan Touzet updated COUCHDB-1164:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 2.0.0)
                   3.0.0

> Pass CouchDB version to view server
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>                 Key: COUCHDB-1164
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1164
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: JavaScript View Server
>            Reporter: Alexander Shorin
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.0.0
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> Imagine that I'm developer of some view server. I'd like to create view 
> server which covers most of CouchDB releases. Each new CouchDB release brings 
> new features, improvements and API changes, some times backward-incompatible 
> (as for 0.9->0.10->0.11->0.11.1) . However, I couldn't solve this task due to 
> there is not way to know about CouchDB version and API that I have to 
> implement. So there are three ways that I have:
> 1. develop only "bleeding edge" view server that support only latest version
> 2. make separate branch per version
> 3. keep "all in one" and pass version as command line argument.
> First one makes to forgot about old releases, second is supporting hell. Last 
> one is more effective, but requires to keep in mind changing argument on 
> server update.
> So there is actually no way to make great view server such as 
> javascript/erlang one with "wide" CouchDB versions support. Without that 
> support using and developing couchapps for ruby/python/clojure/others view 
> servers is quite unpromising.
> This issue could be an improvement of COUCHDB-904 by using next scenario:
> CouchDB pass "version" command to view server with additional value of 
> CouchDB version and excepts that view server return his version back. That 
> would be something like "version exchange". 



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