On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Keith Gable <[email protected]> wrote: > But I see where you're coming from. Which is why I think that iriscouch made > build-couchdb but I may be mistaken.
The thing to remember about build-couchdb is it is strictly a *build* tool in the traditional sense of Unix software. It is not a software bundle. It is not a package. It is not an installer. (Although it is a component in such projects.) build-couchdb is conceptually `./configure && make && make install`. Sysadmins tend to consider that a complete solution; programmers tend to consider it not. `make install` is just some files on a disk; bringing them alive still takes work. That work is site-specific. It is hard even to define those goals, much less achieve them in build-couchdb. -- Iris Couch
