Windows port. If the test suite is finally stable we'll do another pass of getting this to work - sans the Win 10 bash stuff since a) that's still in private release and b) Win 10 stinks.
-Joan ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jan Lehnardt" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 4:48:29 PM > Subject: Re: make > > What else is missing for 2.0? If nothing/not much, I'd like to get > first 2.0.0 release candidates out next week. > > It's time to bring out your pet features/bug fixes ;) > > Jan > -- > > > On 15 Apr 2016, at 18:31, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 <[email protected]> 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/ > > > >
