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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 18:15:00 +0100
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Subject: Re: Binary Downloads
From: Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> wrote:

> Having said all that. Let's imagine that Jason and a team of happy gnomes
> decided to package the output from the build-couchdb tool for lots of
> different platforms. And let's imagine that you could download those
> packages, unarchive them, and run CouchDB (as a stand-alone application) in
> a matter of seconds. And let's imagine that they were made available from a
> page on the IrisCouch website, organised in a grid, depending on version
> and platform. And let's imagine downloads.html linked to that page.
>
> Would that be a bad thing? Nope, I don't think so.
>

Except maybe for the neutrality? How to decide which build go on the
download page?

- benoit