Re: Proposing couchdb-glib and evolution-couchdb for GNOME 2.30

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 13:52 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le jeudi 01 octobre 2009 à 13:42 +0200, Rodrigo Moya a écrit :
> > Hi
> > 
> > Purpose
> > =======
> > couchdb-glib is a library to implement the protocol to talk to CouchDB
> > servers (http://couchdb.apache.org), a schema-free, json-based, database
> > of documents, which offers synchronization and replication between
> > several machines.
> > 
> 
> > For GNOME 2.29, plans are to add support for calendars and tasks
> > (evolution), and, hopefully, also notes (Tomboy), metadata (tracker),
> > configuration settings (dconf, when adopted, if so)
> 
> Since I'm not familiar with CouchDB, does it requires a specific
> server-side software to handle synchronisation or does a plain Apache
> CouchDB server is enough ?
> 
it just needs a CouchDB server instance running somewhere (locally, on a
remote server, etc), no Apache needed. It's an Apache project, but it
runs on its own, on its specific port.

So it's quite lightweight