On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Marcel Bruch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> In any case, I will give it a try and create a simple feature + plug-in for >>> Eclipse that packages the latest CouchDB w/ Erlang runtime for MacOSX + >>> code that starts CouchDB from within Eclipse. >> >> Awesome! > > I spent few minutes on this today. Starting/stoping an instance of CouchDB > from within Eclipse works. Configuration parameters like "database_dir" > "util_driver_dir" etc., however, still point to the build folder. This needs > some adjustments, for example by rewriting the configuration file on startup. > > How can we continue? > 1. To use CouchDB from Eclipse support for most popular os is needed. This > should include win32/64, linux32/64, and mac32/64.
> 2. The configuration issues need to be solved. Again using rcouch templates you can build customs couch with the config you need, and distribute it as a binary. Maybe it could help? https://github.com/refuge/rcouch_template > 3. To use CouchDB at Eclipse the code of CouchDB and Erlang must pass an IP > check. Especially for Erlang this may take some time. > Not sure why ? You can get last uri used by couch by getting it in couch.uri file and let ip an dport be set automatically by the system (0.0.0.0:0) > While the latter is more my problem than yours, how about the former two? Is > it realistic to get builds for other os from CouchDB community? > > The (minimalistic) Eclipse/Java code to start/stop CouchDB is round about 20 > lines and will grow to a few hundred lines I think to deal with configuration > rewrites etc. > > Let me know what you think about it. > > Thanks, > Marcel
