My bad, the gem actually "Relaxo::QueryServer" :) But I'm sure no one cares.
On 12 February 2017 at 11:46, Samuel Williams <space.ship.travel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > It's with a heavy (and slightly frustrated) heart that I've decided to > stop investing time and effort into CouchDB. The 2.0 release moves > further away from the core principals of CouchDB that made it > attractive to me. In addition, a lot of issues in the core design of > CouchDB (e.g. better query server & schema) seem to be ignored for > years and so I've given up hope that there would be improvements. > > I'm not trying to be negative too much, the 2.0 release looks really > great in a lot of ways - it's simply not what I'm after for my > personal projects. > > The main point of this email is regarding the gems I maintained and published. > > For several years, I maintained an unpopular set of Ruby gems: > "Relaxo", "Relaxo::Model" and "Relaxo::Query::Server". They are not > used much but they were pretty decent client libraries. I'm > refactoring the first two gems (never had a 1.0 release) as a Git > based transactional database. So, from the next release (probably > 0.6.0), they will have breaking API changes and no longer work with > CouchDB. The third one - Relaxo::Query::Server, may be modified to be > a git-based map-reduce server, so eventually that will be unavailable > too. > > I'm just wanted to let anyone know, officially, what's happening with > these gems as I feel it would be unfortunate for someone to be > depending on them and not know what's happening or why. If you are > stuck using these gems, know that they are now unmaintained in their > current form, but you can pin to version "~> 0.4.0" and things would > keep working. In addition, I've updated the confluence wiki to point > to the best other option I know of (Couchrest) and removed links to > these gems. When I update these gems, later today, they should not be > published on the CouchDB news feed as they are no longer relevant. > > Thanks so much everyone. > > Kind regards, > Samuel
