On 4 Jun 2011, at 11:36, Marcel Bruch wrote: > On 03.06.2011, at 17:30, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > >> I don't know much about the state of the above nor eclipse, but running >> CouchDB in "embedded mode" is just like calling like any other third party >> command-line tool. What other specific requirements does Eclipse have? > > The word "embedded" was not well chosen. It shouldn't be required to have a > local Erlang runtime nor CouchDB to be installed *before* on client side. > > However, I just recognized that couchdb is started via commandline > "/usr/bin/erl <many options>", right? Thus, what's needed is (i) a Erlang > runtime installation as a plug-in and (ii) a couchdb installation as plug-in. > Both plug-ins would be platform-specific, right? > > If so, we need to come up with 2 x 2 x "OS-Variants" plug-ins? If we would > like to support Mac 32/64, Win 32/64, Linux 32/64 we need 2 x 2 x 6 = 24 > plug-ins? > > Thanks helping me to grasp what would be needed to run CouchDB on a client.
https://github.com/jhs/build-couchdb will build a CouchDB and all dependencies for you in a neat package. But yeah, you'd need one per architecture if you want to have it all fit (64bit Mac OS X *can* run 32bit binaries e.g.), but if the procedure of producing a plugin is automated, I'm sure a lot of people would pitch into providing binaries. Cheers Jan --
