Just a question from aside. Are there plans to integrate multi language docs? I 
know that we always wanted to work on that but we never found a solution to do 
it right.

I am also +1 on your way to do it Jan …

Cheers

Andy

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> On 30 Mar 2016, at 22:19, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Agreed, good enough for now.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jan Lehnardt" <[email protected]>
>> To: "[email protected] Developers" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 3:57:01 PM
>> Subject: make
>> 
>> 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
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>> 

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