On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:49 , Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote:
> Needing node.js to build couchdb? I hate that. Thanks for your opinion. I wouldn’t mind if it means we get a new Futon and more contributors. Cheers Jan -- > On 1 November 2012 11:46, Simon Metson <si...@cloudant.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 11:35, Alexander Shorin wrote: >> >>> Because it's additional semi justified dependencies and whole project >>> goes far away from couchapp concept, imho. >> >> I don't think it does. In fact I'd say it emphasises the flexibility of >> couch apps and how they play nicely with other tools ("hey look, you can >> use this database with the toolset I'm used to from jquery"). >>> If Erica will be bundled tool out of CouchDB box, better to dance around >> him. >> >> I'd rather use something that exists today and evaluate erica when it is >> included with CouchDB and has the necessary feature set in the future. >> >> With grunt we can get consistent build environments, with erica we'd >> either have people installing tools (linters, less compiler, minify-ers >> etc) manually/ad-hoc, have to rely on something like npm (and if we're >> doing that, why not use grunt?) or build it ourselves (eurgh!). >> >> Cheers >> Simon >> >>