As promised: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/402
Little issue with Fauxton, would love help from the team <3 Best Jan -- > On 30 Mar 2016, at 21:57, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hey all, > > last year I endeavoured to make the 2.0 build system to behave as close to > 1.x as possible. > > We’re 80% there, but the remaining 80% prove hard, of course. Without going > too much into the details, the missing parts are the integration with all the > different operating systems. Stuff that takes years to get right (even with > autotools in 1.x it took us quite some time). > > To keep it short: I don’t want to hold up 2.0 for this work. It can be easily > (re-)added later, and the intermediate solution allows us to ship 2.0 sooner > (yay). > > My current plan is to have `./configure && make` produce a directory > `./apache-couchdb-<version>` that includes a full CouchDB build, Fauxton, > Docs, etc. that can be moved into the OS anywhere (say `/usr/local`) and run > from there, and everything: logs, data files, sources, ini files, are in that > directory, and there is no way to move them out (maybe via symlinks, but I > don’t care ;) into a standard file system layout (config files under > [/usr/local]/etc, data files into [/usr/local]/var/lib etc. There won’t be a > `make install` (maybe a dummy that prints an explanation of how to do the > install, and why the target isn’t there). > > This shouldn’t be a lot of work and I’ll try to work on this asap. > > Let me know what you think! > > Best > Jan > -- > Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: > https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/ > -- Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/
