On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Alexander Gabriel <a...@barbalex.ch> wrote: > Hi > > I have developed two couchapps so far. Amazing technology! And easy enough > for a hobby programmer like me to learn (in my "real" life I'm a biologist). > > Beyond being a noob I'm also a windows user - and expecially: a unix- and > shell-NOBODY. My experiences with shells have been rather painful so far, > for instance with git or with curl. Seems like windows is a bad environment > for curl - or shells in general? There were so many problems with using ' > or " or \" that I got lost, especially as it seemed that no code example > seemed to run in my shell without radically changing all ' or " or \".
The code of erica take them as well :) > > There also seem to be a lot of "magic tricks" that Unix users seem to be > born with and usually are not explained in the documentation for shells. > For instance I believe you often have to be in the exact right folder or a > command to work. You just need to be in the app folder to push. > > So I was extremely happy that there was a standalone executable for windows > here: http://www.couchapp.org/page/installing > > Will I have to learn dealing with a shell now? > > Or will there be an executable for windows for erica? There will be an easy way to install erica asap. Sometimes next week. > > And is there advice on how to change an existing project from couchapp to > erica? Or is this not a good idea? The the things that need to be change are .couchappignore -> .ericaignore and you have to reinit the project (erica init). If you're not using the vendors it should be good. > > Looking forward to an even better tooling but I do hope the learning curve > is not too steep... > It shouldn't be. Let me know if you have any problem. - benoît
