(Spoiler: We have no documentation and make install is broken) I want to start developing against 2.0 but there is no documentation. So when I want to try out a new feature, I have to ask questions on IRC. Nothing wrong with that, but it is a bit slow and not everyone trying out 2.0 will take the time needed to ask. And it might be annoying if a lot of people ask the same questions all the time.
To fix this I have created https://github.com/mar-ia/couchdb-info-dump to collect everything that is new in 2.0. As the name implies, this is a dump. No need to worry about grammar and formatting, just throw it in. Or throw it at me if you prefer. Send it to this thread, do a pull request or ping me at IRC. Anyway you want. Pointing to the source code (bulk_get is new see some_file.erl:35-124 for options) is ok too. So very informal :) When everything is in there, then if someone feels like writing documentation, they know where to look and what questions to ask :) I have also updated https://github.com/mar-ia/couchdb-crazy to work with the current master. This is still the only way that I have manged to start 2.0. (./dev/run does not count) The result of "make install" is told bellow in "Trying out the alpha". A little list of bugs: Fauxton: Url of documents in a view in table view misses _utils/#/ (http://ip:port/<it should be here>database/database-name/doc-id) Lists all shards on the backport with the error message "This database failed to load." make: The docs are not built. (The html version was actually built once.) Git artifacts in the tarball. The inifiles are installed in 2 places. (lib/couchdb/etc and etc/couchdb) bin/couchdb: Can not start if couchdb is installed into a custom directory. (./configure --prefix="/path/to/dir") compaction: Crashes on a corrupt document in a shard instead of fetching a healthy copy from the cluster and heal the shard. Anyway, I have a 3 node cluster running 2.0 that replicates real data from a 1.6.1. So I am using it daily now \o/ // Maria *** Trying out the alpha *** I tried to install and configure a single node following the guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BtndYr-0KDQTqBSLVdJoR_8C5ObYjT1RBo_Qyh5ykdQ using apache-couchdb-2.0.0-a18004d.tar.gz (2016-01-12T16:01:33.000Z) from http://couchdb.apache.org/release-candidate/2.0/ I ran it on on my laptop with Gentoo 64bit. make fails with: Compiling /home/user/couchdb/apache-couchdb-2.0.0-a18004d/src/couch/priv/couch_js/http.c In file included from /home/user/couchdb/apache-couchdb-2.0.0-a18004d/src/couch/priv/couch_js/http.c:19:0: priv/couch_js/config.h:8:24: warning: missing terminating " character #define PACKAGE_STRING "Apache CouchDB fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home) So I did a git clone and used master instead :) The docs are not built so they can not be installed. They had to be disabled. I tried to install in a directory in my home dir, with ./configure --prefix="/path/to/dir" but couchdb looks for the configfiles in the default places, so I could not get it to start. So I did a system install instead :D (I have snapshots so easy to restore.) If I run "make install" as root then the permissions are wrong so to get around that I did it as a user. But first I had to create the following file and directories and chown them to my user account. touch /usr/local/bin/couchdb mkdir /usr/local/lib/couchdb mkdir -p /usr/local/libexec/couchdb mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/couchdb mkdir -p /usr/local/share/couchdb mkdir -p /usr/local/share/doc/apache-couchdb Finally installed and starts by running "couchdb" in a terminal \o/ But nothing works /o\ After some time of frustration I found the problem. The inifiles(default.ini and local.ini) are in 2 places and I changed the wrong ones. The ones that are used are in /usr/local/lib/couchdb/etc/ and I edited the ones in /usr/local/etc/couchdb/ At this point I gave up :$ Almost got it to work though. ***
