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Subject: Re: windows build?
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:41:06 +0200
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On Aug 13, 2008, at 11:53, Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen wrote:

> 2008/8/2 Brad King <brking@gmail.com>:
>> Great idea for prototyping. Just keep in mind performance suffers
>> quite a bit for view index time on VM vs. real. Not sure if you were
>> planning on running in production that way, but wouldn't recommend  
>> it.
>
> OTOH using Windows in production for a server isn't the easiest,
> cheapest nor safest thing to do anyway.
> So developping on a VMWare image, (perhaps it's even wiser to go with
> a server, console-only version).

The idea here is not to provide something for a production system.
There are folks who are on Windows and actually do like it or can't
switch for whatever reason and a native build would be the least
possible hassle for these to try out CouchDB.

Frankly, if somebody would come and say "Install Windows[1] in
VMware and then try our awesome project", I would pass.

In my opinion, a native Windows build has its value and it would
be nice if somebody could pull it together.

Cheers
Jan
--
[1] Or any other system that is complete alien to me


>
>
> Adding bonus-effects: you can throw the whole server configuration in
> source-control ;-)
> When releasing producting ready version you just release the whole
> server image ready to deploy.
>
> I use linux as a desktop, but i too am using virtualized images, that
> I deploy when ready.
> It depends on the sort of project, but if you need to things like
> automatically convert certain uploaded file-types, etc. having the
> whole server and installed programs under source-control really is the
> way to go.
>
> Greetings,
> Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen
>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Demetrius Nunes
>> <demetriusnunes@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This is what I am using:
>>> http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1224
>>>
>>> rgds.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Jonathan Resnick  
>>> <jresnick@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Makes sense.... why didn't I think of that.  Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> j
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Demetrius Nunes
>>>> <demetriusnunes@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Same here.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Ronny Hanssen <super.ronny@gmail.com
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I choose to set up a vmware image and do it in kubuntu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just got the feeling that building it for Windows was looking  
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> trouble...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~Ronny
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Jonathan Resnick <jresnick@gmail.com 
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Has anyone got CouchDB successfully built on Windows?  I feel  
>>>>>>> silly
>>>>>>> asking this but for better or worse Windows is what I know.   
>>>>>>> On the
>>>>>>> other hand, the abiliy to get it going easily on Windows would  
>>>>>>> open it
>>>>>>> up to a whole new audience to try out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have tried following the directions posted here
>>>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/InstallingOnWindows, but I  
>>>>>>> can't seem
>>>>>>> to find binaries for SpiderMonkey anywhere on the Mozilla  
>>>>>>> site, nor
>>>>>>> have I had any luck compiling it from source (the *.mdp file  
>>>>>>> is too
>>>>>>> old to open in Visual Studio and NMAKE craps out with some
>>>>>>> unintelliglible error).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have also searched the archives of this mailing list but  
>>>>>>> haven't
>>>>>>> come across anything relevant.  Any ideas would be a great help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> jon
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ____________________________
>>>>> http://www.demetriusnunes.com
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ____________________________
>>> http://www.demetriusnunes.com
>>>
>>
>