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

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 14:24 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 14:12 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > If there is a local couchdb exepected for the common case then maybe
> > > the mozilla js dependency needs a mention.
> > > 
> > it is not required for evo-couchdb to work, so I don't think it needs
> > any mention, apart from saying that if you want to run a local
> > CouchDB,
> > you need to install CouchDB and all its dependencies. 
> 
> Do you expect anyone to run it against a remote server?  If connected to
> a remote server does evo-couchdb support offline operation and replaying
> of offline events, or does it fail if you are offline?
> 
it would fail if you're offline, yes. But we could easily add a cache of
offline operations, and sync that to the server when back online.

> I always thought the entire point was that you ran a local couchdb
> server so that you could then sync with other servers "in the cloud".
> Sure, you can run it against a remote server, but how much will that be
> used?
> 
right, but local couchdb server can be on your home network, for
instance, no need for it to be on the cloud. Your home server could then
just sync with the cloud.

But yes, the best scenario is to have a couchdb instance on your
machine, and sync that to whatever remote machines you want.

> > So it's quite lightweight
> 
> $ sudo aptitude install couchdb
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information      
> Initializing package states... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   couchdb erlang-asn1{a} erlang-base{a} erlang-corba{a} erlang-crypto{a} erlang-docbuilder{a} 
>   erlang-edoc{a} erlang-eunit{a} erlang-ic{a} erlang-inets{a} erlang-inviso{a} erlang-mnesia{a} 
>   erlang-nox{a} erlang-odbc{a} erlang-os-mon{a} erlang-parsetools{a} erlang-percept{a} 
>   erlang-public-key{a} erlang-runtime-tools{a} erlang-snmp{a} erlang-ssh{a} erlang-ssl{a} 
>   erlang-syntax-tools{a} erlang-tools{a} erlang-webtool{a} erlang-xmerl{a} libsctp1{a} lksctp-tools{a} 
> 0 packages upgraded, 28 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
> Need to get 20.2MB of archives. After unpacking 35.6MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
> 
> CouchDB on Debian takes up 35MB of disk space.  Not exactly lightweight.
> 
right, this is because of lots of unneeded erlang dependencies. On
Ubuntu Karmic the dependencies have been reviewed (for inclusion on the
main CD), and I think it's just 14MB now (not sure about the exact
numbers, but can check if you want)