Agreed. That sounds like a good plan. I'd just want to ensure that the Erlang side can be installed as a release and run as a release, or included as apps, to a project and run without a problem. This can be complicated by having the build system do so much with the configuration files. Which is why I simply put them in priv and reference them that way. But something can be figured out.
Tristan On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 4 Nov 2010, at 00:33, Tristan Sloughter wrote: > > > What complex stuff is the build system dealing with? > > Everything outside of "erlc" :) > > - VPATH builds > - Configuring the install to find the location of C libraries > - Customising the install for users > - Setting up the system infrastructure for CouchDB to function > - Making sure things work across platforms > - Building customised versions of binaries and scripts > > > 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? > > Doing the build system for an operating system daemon is Hard. > > > I'd still say it should be autotools, or whatever, inside an Erlang build > > system. > > Basically, I would like to see the new build system separate the package > into two components. The CouchDB OTP application, which is build using some > Erlang appropriate build system (like rebar, or whatever) and everything > else. Everything else is handled by Autotools, like it is now. Autotools is > also responsible for delegating the Erlang work off to the other build > system. > > A good way forward would be: > > - Decide the minimum set of files needed for the Erlang build. > > - Sandbox them into a directory along with the build files. > > - Create a Makefile.am file in that directory. > > - Hook the new system into the Autotools system. > > That should work. > > We get to keep teh AWSUM POWAH of Autotools, and have an OTP app. :) > > Valediction, > > N > >
