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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:43:53 -0500
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Subject: Re: (lack of) couchdb windows binaries
From: Nathan Stott <nrstott@gmail.com>
To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
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I could not disagree more about packaging Erlang.  I do not know any windows
developers who already have Erlang installed!

Most users of CouchDB, certainly on Windows, will not have used Erlang
before coming to CouchDB.  Suggesting that packaging the Erlang binaries
with the installer will decrease adoption sounds ludicrous.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Robert Dionne
<dionne@dionne-associates.com>wrote:

> I tend to agree with you on this. If, for example, you look at Eclipse you
> can see it's capable of using multiple versions of Java that might be
> installed on the same box. Many installers bundle their own JRE precisely to
> insure they get things right. However, the current level of Erlang and
> CouchDB I'd go with the latter approach for now. It sounds like you have
> larger fish to fry still.
>
> Best,
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2010, at 7:51 AM, Mark Hammond wrote:
>
> > Just to follow up on a bit of this:
> >
> > On 1/04/2010 10:09 PM, Carl McDade wrote:
> >> Wampserver, Xammp etc. But it does not appear to do this yet. So while
> YAWS,
> >> Ejabbard and other software would be running on single instance of
> Erlang.
> >> guaranteeing use of single version, CouchDB might be running on a
> different
> >> version.
> >
> > It appears the ejabberd installer for windows takes the same approach as
> us - the webpage says "The installers contain all the libraries and
> dependencies needed to run ejabberd" and indeed, a copy of the erlang
> runtime and binaries are installed directly in the ejabberd directory - ie,
> it appears to not offer installing into an already installed erlang binary
> distribution either.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
>
>

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