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From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 21:19:11 -0400
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Subject: Re: curl dependency
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Or we write our own code to make HTTP requests (Which isn't out of the
question) and remove the curl dependency altogether.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:
>
> On 4 Jun 2011, at 22:10, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> Its already a soft dependency. If curl isn't found all that happens is
>> that you can't run ./test/javascript/run after you build it.
>
> Which means curl is a hard dependency if you want to run the JS tests
> that we intend to move from the browser into CLI JS tests, right?
>
> Cheers
> Jan
> --
>
>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Chris Anderson <jchris@apache.org> wrote=
:
>>> This sparks another thought that we could have a ./configure directive
>>> that says --no-curl or something. Since we only need curl for purposes
>>> of running the developer test suite.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Arash Bizhan zadeh <arashbi@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am trying to compile couch on RH enterprise. The official RH package=
 for
>>>> curl is 7.15, but Couch needs 7.18. I would like to know what is the b=
est
>>>> way to handle this? Is =A0there any specific reason that Couch depends=
 on
>>>> 7.18? Can the dependency be downgraded to 7.15?
>>>> Can anybody advise me on how to handle this specific dependency and ot=
her
>>>> dependencies ( i.e Erlang) please?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> -arash
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Chris Anderson
>>> http://jchrisa.net
>>> http://couchbase.com
>>>
>
>