On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: > Benoit writes: > >> - how the fauxton build is handled right now in the bigcouch branch. >> What are requirements to make it automatic? (no manual installation). >> Is there a way to disable it > > It has been the intent of the Fauxton team to deprecate Futon in 2.0, > and only ship Fauxton. This has been communicated in the CouchDB meeting > minutes previously. I didn't see any previous discussion about it on the mailing-list. hence my question.
> > Unifying the build process is certainly something worth looking into, > but it requires we add a number of other technologies as build pre- > requisites (node, npm, grunt for a start). As the team wasn't sure > everyone wanted this, so far building Fauxton while building Couch > is not mandatory. > > Can you clarify what you mean about disabling Fauxton? > Being able to disable it from the build. so I don't have to require nodejs, npm and many dependencies needed on some installations. - benoit
