> I don't believe CouchDB depends on jQuery. > In any case CouchDB by itself does not depend on jQuery.
Perhaps I didnt explain my point well. I mentioned jquery dependency in the context of 'Futon improvements'. Futon is the 'in box' app for accessing CouchDB in browser and is dependent on jquery. Beyond this we think that the effect of better documenting at least the js included with CouchDB on installation would be greatly increased usability of CouchDB. We do not have this opinion because we are stupid or because we do not understand the code. I myself would welcome the demonstration of an alternative version of Futon from either of you that does not require jquery and is as good as or more full featured than the Futon that we have . > jQuery and CouchApp are much easier to write The addition of the features mentioned by Paul in the jquery dependent Futon would be good to see too. At the moment the feature set of Futon is far from useful for the level of dev that we are already at. > CouchApp is a third party tool > You don't need to use CouchApp though, you can push design documents any way you like. I mentioned CouchApp only in passing and i realise its dependencies are not really relevant to this discussion but it does seem odd to me that the demo 'standalone couchapp' in couchdb documentation is 'out of the box' dependent on a python module. At the same time personally i like using py and i like using js so calling the CouchApp py module a 'third party tool' in the context doesnt seem to make too much sense. ...development of CouchDB will also be aided if this user mailing list involved a higher % of informed discussion and lower % 'o crap i cant it to work' cheers
