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Subject: Re: Best Approaches for Developer Integration
From: Eric Evans <eevans@rackspace.com>
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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:38:25 -0600
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On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 22:28 -0800, Paul Querna wrote:
> For example, for CouchDB has CouchDBX <http://www.couchone.com/get>
> which at least on OSX present a very easy to use installer, data
> browser, and GUI.  You just run CouchDBX.app, and then your
> application can build out the rest of your data as needed for
> development.
> 
> So, I guess this is coming down to:
>   1) Has anyone built any easy to install packages of Cassandra? 

I'm sure you already know this, but for the benefit of others, users of
Debian-based systems (yes, some of us do develop on Linux :) can apt-get
a package from the projects repository[1].

Installing the package is enough to get a completely functional node
suitable to develop against.

[1]: deb http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian unstable main

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Eric Evans
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