Re: windows build?

[Sho Fukamachi]

On 15/08/2008, at 4:53 AM, Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen wrote:

You have a point there. For the try-before-you-buy crowd, a windows
build would be very usefull.

How large is the crowd of people who are technically skilled/curious enough to be wanting to try out advanced pre-release distributed REST- based database servers written in erlang with their cutting edge web applications that they are writing because they are programmers but at the same time can't manage to gain any access at all to a UNIX-like system? I would have thought it was zero ... Anyway, I would have thought the #1 reason for getting a windows build up and running is to fulfil the (currently somewhat distant) promise of being able to deliver Couch locally as an online/offline syncing file store or something, but that's all off in the future and not an urgent priority.

I was more referring to the next phase, when somebody would actually
decide to use CouchDB.
In that case i would try to rely on software stacks in their 'native'
habitat. But that's just my preference.

In my humble opinion, of course!

Sho

Geeze, I can *kind of* understand someone wanting to use Windows for development if they absolutely have to have DreamWeaver or something, but on a server?! Of course you are right that people should run server software, on servers, in their "native" environment. One doesn't use WINE to run IIS on Linux, one should not use cygwin or whatever to run Erlang/CouchDB on Windows. If you couldn't escape Windows on the server for some unbelievably good reason (like the aliens are threatening to blow up the world if you don't), then it would probably be easier/preferable to run it in Linux under VMWare anyway.

Greetings,
Ralf N.

Cheers
Jan
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[1] Or any other system that is complete alien to me

source-control ;-)
When releasing producting ready version you just release the whole
server image ready to deploy.


I deploy when ready.
It depends on the sort of project, but if you need to things like
automatically convert certain uploaded file-types, etc. having the

way to go.

Greetings,
Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen

Adding bonus-effects: you can throw the whole server configuration in I use linux as a desktop, but i too am using virtualized images, that whole server and installed programs under source-control really is the

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Demetrius Nunes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

This is what I am using:
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1224

rgds.


wrote:

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Jonathan Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Makes sense.... why didn't I think of that.  Thanks.

j

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Demetrius Nunes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Same here.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Ronny Hanssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

I choose to set up a vmware image and do it in kubuntu.


trouble...


~Ronny


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I just got the feeling that building it for Windows was looking for On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Jonathan Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Has anyone got CouchDB successfully built on Windows? I feel silly asking this but for better or worse Windows is what I know. On the other hand, the abiliy to get it going easily on Windows would open

it
up to a whole new audience to try out.

I have tried following the directions posted here

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/InstallingOnWindows, but I can't seem to find binaries for SpiderMonkey anywhere on the Mozilla site, nor have I had any luck compiling it from source (the *.mdp file is too

old to open in Visual Studio and NMAKE craps out with some
unintelliglible error).



jon

I have also searched the archives of this mailing list but haven't come across anything relevant. Any ideas would be a great help.

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