Jan responded to my question on Couchbase forums, they are doing nightly builds for OSX, thread/instructions here:
http://techzone.couchbase.com/forums/thread/couchdbx-nightlies-are-defunkt Reposting here: """ Be running the latest Couchbase Server for OS X. Tell Terminal you want to be on the alpha track defaults write com.couchbase.couchbase-server SUFeedURL http://appcast.couchbase.com/couchbase-alpha.xml Check for updates. """ -- Milan On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Milan Andric <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Brian, but I'm looking for a dev version of couch so > downloading from couchbase is not useful since they only offer certain > releases and they are not clear on what version of couchdb they ship, > either. If you do a couchdb -V on the binary shipped with couchbase > you get 1.1.1 but that does not correspond to features in 1.1 in the > actual couchdb project, for example _replicator database is not there. > > $ /Applications/Couchbase\ > Server.app/Contents/Resources/couchdbx-core/bin/couchdb -V > couchdb - Apache CouchDB 1.1.1 > > I assume since CouchDB 1.1.1 has not been released or is not tagged in > svn that is an internal couchbase release number? So it is a bit > confusing as to what is in the release. On top of that the couchdbx > (osx) nightlies have disappeared. I have a couchdb working but > building my own is not ideal, so I'm curious if nightlies builds of > dev are available somewhere. Apologies for the noise. > > Milan > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Brian Chamberlain > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yeah, It looks like you're having trouble compiling the Readline package. >> I've had problems with that in the past but unfortunately I can't offer any >> advice now since it was so long ago. You might try upgrading your Xcode and >> then trying to install just the readline package. >> >> Or you could download the package from Couchbase... That's probably your >> best bet for a stand alone couch. >> >> Best of luck >> Brian >> >> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Milan Andric <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I tried homebrew but no luck, dependency issues and homebrew says I >>> should report a bug. Gist: https://gist.github.com/983012 >>> >>> I think the build difficulty of couchdb warrants binary distribution, >>> that is if you want developers using it easily on OSX, Windows and >>> Linux. >>> >>> Milan >>> >>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Brian Chamberlain >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > You might also consider using HomeBrew for installing CouchDB. It makes >>> it >>> > very easy to install. >>> > >>> > Here's a link to the homebrew project: >>> > http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ >>> > >>> > Cheers! >>> > >>> > >>> > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Nils Breunese <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Milan Andric wrote: >>> >> >>> >> > Hello, the CouchDBX stable builds (http://janl.github.com/couchdbx/) >>> >> > point to couchbase.com and the nightlies >>> >> > (http://couch.lstoll.net/nightly/) are no longer being created. Does >>> >> > anyone have a link to nightly builds (or development builds) of >>> >> > CouchDB for OSX? I am working on a project that needs features that >>> >> > are in CouchDB dev but I am trying to avoid building it myself on OSX, >>> >> > but I also think it would be helpful to the community to have the >>> >> > CouchDBX nightlies working again? >>> >> >>> >> I believe CouchDBX has been superseded by Couchbase Server for Mac OS X >>> >> [0], but I'm not sure if there are nightly builds available for that. >>> >> >>> >> Nils. >>> >> >>> >> [0] http://www.couchbase.com/downloads/couchbase-server/community >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >> VPRO www.vpro.nl >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > -Brian >>> > >>> > [email protected] >>> > @breakpointer >>> > >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -Brian >> >> [email protected] >> @breakpointer >> >
