Re: Mac install instructions : brew ports

2010-10-28 Thread Noah Slater
We need to get CouchDB into the iStore when it's rolled out in OS X Lion! Feel free to donate the proceeds raised to my personal account. ;) On 28 Oct 2010, at 01:39, Jan Lehnardt wrote: I agree, an addition is great, we can leave the MacPorts part in with a disclaimer that brew is more

Mac install instructions : brew ports

2010-10-27 Thread Mikeal Rogers
I just setup a new laptop and used homebrew to install the CouchDB deps (spidermonkey erlang). Not only was it super fast and painless but I got a newer spidermonkey (1.8.3) which is something like 30x faster for most of the stuff we do with the view server but I also didn't have to pass any

Re: Mac install instructions : brew ports

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Mikeal Rogers mikeal.rog...@gmail.com wrote: I just setup a new laptop and used homebrew to install the CouchDB deps (spidermonkey erlang). Not only was it super fast and painless but I got a newer spidermonkey (1.8.3) which is something like 30x faster for

Re: Mac install instructions : brew ports

2010-10-27 Thread Stephen Prater
I might have an objection to that. Homebrew links into your system in slightly unpredictable ways - I certainly don't mind them being ADDED, or even recommended, but I think that purging all references to MacPorts might be excessive. On the other hand, how hard is it to figure out how to

Re: Mac install instructions : brew ports

2010-10-27 Thread Mikeal Rogers
The install docs also refer to building for development. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Stephen Prater steph...@agrussell.comwrote: I might have an objection to that. Homebrew links into your system in slightly unpredictable ways - I certainly don't mind them being ADDED, or even

Re: Mac install instructions : brew ports

2010-10-27 Thread Stephen Prater
I'd be happy with a disclaimer like If you have an objection to installing CouchDB through Homebrew, it is also available within the MacPorts tree. But, since the ports instructions are substantially incorrect, I don't see a problem with removing them. On Oct 27, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Mikeal

Re: Mac install instructions : brew ports

2010-10-27 Thread Jan Lehnardt
I agree, an addition is great, we can leave the MacPorts part in with a disclaimer that brew is more recommended. Personally, I found MacPorts to be the less predictable system, but whatever works for folks. Cheers Jan -- On 28 Oct 2010, at 00:28, Stephen Prater wrote: I'd be happy with a