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On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Tristan Sloughter < tristan.slough...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see it was already discussed about breaking CouchDB into apps: > > couch_core: The core Erlang modules for storing docs and managing > "internal infrastructure" > couch_view: The view engine as well as the holder for managing OS > processes. > couch_rep: couch_rep*.erl > couch_externals: couch_external*.erl > couch_httpd: couch_http*.erl > > I was going to also start on that after getting the build stable. Now I see > the work of deciding what goes where was already done :). > > This is great. I hope my work on this can be helpful for the move in 1.1.x > you guys want to make. > > Tristan > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Tristan Sloughter < > tristan.slough...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hmm, ok. I have replaced the build system. I am using sinan but it should >> be buildable now with any Erlang/OTP build tool, like rebar. I am just >> running it as a release from a script that erl-execs the boot file. >> >> What complex stuff is the build system dealing with? I'm separating the >> config file (and similar files) problem and the icu and couch_js problem. I >> was hoping building those few C files wouldn't be bad, but I guess that is >> not true from what you are saying? >> >> I'd still say it should be autotools, or whatever, inside an Erlang build >> system. >> >> Tristan >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Have you wholesale replaced the existing build system? >>> >>> If you have, it's going to be a tad more complex than knocking up a few >>> makefiles to compile C. There's lots of very complex stuff our build system >>> copes with at the moment. I'm not convinced it can be replaced by an Erlang >>> build system and a few shell scripts. We've had chats about improving the >>> build system before, and I think the consensus is that we wrap an Erlang >>> build system WITHIN the Autotools system. >>> >>> What are you thoughts? >>> >>> On 4 Nov 2010, at 00:04, Tristan Sloughter wrote: >>> >>> > If anyone by chance has or can easily create some simplistic make files >>> or >>> > something for compiling the C code that would be AWESOME. I haven't had >>> time >>> > to dig around what is needed to compile the different pieces but its >>> the >>> > last major piece to complete. >>> > >>> > Tristan >>> > >>> > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Tristan Sloughter < >>> > tristan.slough...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Hi everyone, I have a github fork from apache/couchdb >>> >> https://github.com/tsloughter/couchdb that I modified to be more OTP >>> >> compliant and now builds with sinan (from http://erlware.org). There >>> >> wasn't much that I've done so far. I moved the CouchDB app under >>> >> lib/couchdb. I removed the other apps from the source tree, they can >>> easily >>> >> be installed with faxien (from http://erlware.org) and versions can >>> be >>> >> declared if necessary. I changed the _app.erl file to not start >>> applications >>> >> and added those applications instead to the applications list in the >>> .app >>> >> file. They will be started properly by the release's boot script. >>> >> >>> >> I moved all non-Erlang stuff to lib/couchdb/priv. >>> >> >>> >> I still have a number of things to do that I hope to get to tonight. >>> First, >>> >> fix up the two scripts under bin/. Fix the configuration file >>> locations >>> >> (some stuff is hardcoded for my environment). Add a hook to sinan to >>> compile >>> >> the icu driver -- right now I just copied the library over from a >>> build of >>> >> CouchDB I did separately. >>> >> >>> >> There are probably a few other things.. But I was able to do an >>> >> application:start(couchdb) last night and see it working :). >>> >> >>> >> There were a few things I thought of changing within the code as I dug >>> >> around but those are a separate issue that I'll bring up in discussion >>> after >>> >> all this is complete. >>> >> >>> >> Tristan >>> >> >>> >>> >> >
