RPMs and PKGBUILDs are pretty easy to implement from a good upstream source, especially if you don't have to maintain packages for your dependencies (i.e Erlang), I would imagine DEBs are the same.
I'm sure someone will continue to package couch for various Linux distros. Windows(and Mac?) on the other hand may be more tricky since they lack package managers and probably bundle Erlang in the binaries. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Jason Sachs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I > > understand Apache has a habit of releasing source code rather than > > binaries, but there is immense value in a prepackaged binary and > > immense loss of value in not having a reliable source for them. > > > > Completely agree--I'm a full-time Linux user (Ubuntu variants mostly) and > while I know nothing about making Debian packages I'm motivated enough to > figure it out and maintain a Debian package if there winds up being a void > here. > > -- > Matthew Woodward > [email protected] > http://blog.mattwoodward.com > identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward > > Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, > etc. as attachments. > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >
