On 10.06.2011, at 11:14, Benoit Chesneau wrote:

> 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


Will have a look at this.

>> 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)

sorry, this term is overloaded. With "IP" i meant "Intellectual Property" check.

> 
>> 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

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