On 03/12/2008, at 6:04 AM, Damien Katz wrote:

> - Incremental document replication -
>
> We need at the minimum the ability to incrementally replicate only  
> the attachments that have changed in a document. This will save lots  
> of network IO and CouchDB can be version control system with  
> document diffs added as attachments.

And differentially replicate such attachments where possible.

- A plugin mechanism for deployment -

Allowing separately compiled and deployed extensions to Couch.

I have a branch here: http://github.com/AntonyBlakey/couchdb/tree/external 
  that includes that includes both the simplest possible plugin  
mechanism and a cleaned version of Paul Davis's external that includes  
update_seq in the external protocol (and changes db -> db_name for  
consistency).

Antony Blakey
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