On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Clemens Stolle <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 25.01.2016 um 11:44 schrieb Alexander Shorin <[email protected]>: >> We don't provide any PPA builds to use, especially for 2.0, today. >> Ubuntu vs debian - doesn't matter for me. > > I was referring to this PPA > https://launchpad.net/~couchdb/+archive/ubuntu/stable > Isn’t it maintained by the CouchDB project? I guess my question is if it were > preferable to use such a pre-built package instead of building from source.
Those are the result of the work that my company's contracted dch@ for. The intent was to hopefully have the build scripts, etc. folded back into the main repo to make it easier for future releases to have official packages, but I think that everyone was too focused on core 2.0 issues to get too involved in packaging (and also enough changed that it was probably too early to get it right). We're in the process of setting up a second contract, so hopefully some prerelease 2.0 versions will start showing up there in a couple months. Hopefully the work will get enough traction to become part of the formal release process at some point. Cheers, Eli
