Perhaps some of you may already be aware, but for the benefits of others: 1) https://github.com/fauna/cassandra does have a cassandra_helper script which will download and install Cassandra for development/testing purposes (although the cassandra_script might need to be updated to use 0.7)
2) For people on the Mac, there is a Homebrew ( http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) formula/package available for Cassandra which makes installing simply: brew install cassandra On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: > > I'm sure you already know this, but for the benefit of others, users of > > Debian-based systems (yes, some of us do develop on Linux :) can apt-get > > a package from the projects repository[1]. > > > > Installing the package is enough to get a completely functional node > > suitable to develop against. > > > > [1]: deb http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian unstable main > > And rpms are available from http://rpm.riptano.com/ > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://www.datastax.com > -- Salvador Fuentes Jr.
