Hi,
There was a tweet from Damien that they were working on this:
http://twitter.com/damienkatz/status/20417276648
Cheers
Simon
On 14 Sep 2010, at 04:02, Nils Breunese wrote:
Op 14 sep 2010, om 10:13 heeft Mirko Kiefer het volgende geschreven:
has anyone an idea on how difficult it would be to create a CouchDB
installation which could be bundled with an iOS app? Is it maybe
possible to reuse some of the work done for CouchDB on Android?
As Apple made quite a few changes to the App Store License
Agreement I don't think there are any legal issues anymore. The
only problem might be that CouchDB allows to download executable
code in the form of design documents - so this feature shouldn't be
used for iOS apps.
Would you really call design documents 'executable code'? It's not
like a design document can do anything on the phone except things
like transforming data in a database. It's all constrained to
CouchDB's behavior. Sounds more like configuration than executable
code to me.
I hear the guys doing the C64 emulator app for iPhone are even
putting the BASIC interpreter back into the upcoming version.
CouchDB without design documents is pretty boring by the way.
I wonder if embedding CouchDB in an app is really the way to go.
Wouldn't it be nice to have just one CouchDB on your phone and other
apps talking to that CouchDB instance? Too bad there is no
dependency management in the App Store (so CouchDB would
automatically be installed when installing your first application
using CouchDB as its backend) and saying "Please start CouchDB!" on
the startup screen might not going to be accepted.
Of course (HTML/JS) applications can also be part of CouchDB instead
of the other way around: CouchApps! (Which are actually just design
documents.)
Nils.
