On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Jason Sachs <[email protected]> wrote: > CouchBase just recently announced that they were discontinuing Single > Server. > (http://www.couchbase.com/products-and-services/couchbase-single-server) > > This seems to leave CouchDB without a place to obtain prepackaged > binaries for the major OSs (Windows/OSX/major Linux variants). The > wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Windows) cites 3 > sources of binaries: Couchbase and two other individuals' sites which > haven't been updated since fall 2010. > > Is there an alternative to CouchBase for obtaining binaries? 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. > > --Jason
The refuge project and rcouch allows you to build such binaries: https://github.com/refuge/rcouch I will see what could be done to make them available for different platforms. - benoit
