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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:45:39 -0400
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Subject: Re: Project description
From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
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We're getting closer on the native Erlang implementation. No ETA yet,
but I'd like to see it in 0.10 in case that affects things.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jan Lehnardt<jan@apache.org> wrote:
> Per Noah's request:
>
> [20:27]nslater:"I'd like to drop ", or any other language" since we don't
> support anything but JS"
> [20:27]nslater:i thought we support any language via external view server=
s?
> [20:27]nslater:the original wording was very akward: "table-oriented view
> engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language."
> [20:30]jan____:yes, that should go, but we should just state it is JS and=
 be
> done with it
> [20:30]jan____:it is possible to write views in other language via not
> supported 3rd party modules
> [20:31]jan____:I don't know of a single one that works completely
>
> Cheers
> Jan
> --
>
>
> On 27 Jul 2009, at 20:20, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>
>>
>> On 27 Jul 2009, at 00:47, Noah Slater wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I think the current project description is too wordy and confusing:
>>>
>>> Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free
>>> document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Amon=
g
>>> other
>>> features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-direction=
al
>>> conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using=
 a
>>> table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view
>>> definition language.
>>>
>>> CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any
>>> environment
>>> that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are a multitude of
>>> third-party client libraries that make this even easier for a variety o=
f
>>> programming languages and environments.
>>>
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=
 =A0 =A0-
>>> http://couchdb.apache.org/index.html
>>>
>>> I suggest the following replacement:
>>>
>>> Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database with a RESTful JSON API.
>>> It
>>> provides incremental replication with bi-directional conflict resolutio=
n,
>>> and
>>> can be queried and indexed with JavaScript, or any other language.
>>
>> I'd like to drop ", or any other language" since we don't support anythi=
ng
>> but JS
>> just yet. Otherwise, this looks good!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jan
>> --
>>
>>
>>>
>>> CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be accessed from any environment
>>> that
>>> allows HTTP requests. There are myriad third-party client libraries tha=
t
>>> make
>>> this even easier from your programming language of choice.
>>>
>>> Can I go ahead and make the change?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
>>>
>>
>
>