I fixed hovercraft and it is now sync up date with latest couchdb 0.11xxx. My fork is @ http://github.com/sendtopms/hovercraft
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]>wrote: > Zoltan, (Got the A right!) > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Zoltan Lajos Kis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Has anyone been experimenting with running CouchDB as an Erlang only > > application? What I would love to have is: > > - stick CouchDB into my lib/ directory, and have it run as part of my > > release (everything running in a single Erlang VM). > > We've done some work to make CouchDB startable via application:start() > as per Erlang semantics. This should work in theory but there still > might be gotchyas with the base install. I know people have > successfully run it as a dependent app though. > > > - use Erlang views only (is erlview running within the same VM? is it > > up-to-date with CouchDB features?) > > Native Erlang views can be enabled with a config option. They're in > trunk now and will remain consistent with the JavaScript server > implementation. > > > - access CouchDB via an Erlang interface (is hovercraft still running? > does > > it support all features available via http?) > > Not sure if Hovercraft is up to date with trunk. I think I heard > someone on IRC say there was a minor version difference that was minor > to resolve. > > > - no dependency on ICU, curl and SpiderMonkey (as I would not need them > for > > anything) > > To remove the ICU dependency you'll have to patch CouchDB because its > a linked in driver that's required for collation regardless of view > server. > > Curl and Spidermonkey could be removed as install time dependencies > fairly easily by discarding couchjs after a build and updating the > configuration to not attempt to use it. I think some parts of the auth > code depend on having the JS view server available but you could ixnay > that pretty easily by giving it an Erlang implementation. Its a pretty > simple view IIRC. > > For build time dependencies, I don't foresee removing them. Though I > could be convinced if the patch to the build system isn't overly > intrusive. > > > Any pointers to references, case studies, whatever is much appreciated! > > > > Regards, > > ZoltAn. > > I've heard of people running as a subordinate in a VM but have no > direct experience myself. As I recall they basically built CouchDB and > then installed into their Erlang package for distribution. Or some > such. It may take a bit of effort as its not use case that's had lots > of patches submitted. > > HTH, > Paul Davis >
