Re: 0.9 Progress

[Adam Kocoloski <ad...@gmail.com>]

On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Chris Anderson wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Adam Kocoloski
> <ad...@gmail.com> wrote:       ...
>>
>> +1 for being able to easily move derived data around.  In fact, I  
>> think it'd
>> be better if all the derived data on the server shared a common  
>> root that
>> was separate from the canonical data.  I opened a ticket (#168)  
>> about this a
>> month ago.  Sorry I didn't chime earlier on the ML to voice that  
>> viewpoint.
>>
>
> Adam,
>
> I tried to set up the above so that #168 will work. Since the views
> are in .indexes, and the originals in .couch, you could store them
> together in one directory or separate roots. I'm thinking a config
> item for data_dir plus one for derived_dir ... which can be different,
> but by default are the same. This makes it least different from the
> current implementation, but with the advantages we want.
>
> I think it works - please look for holes in my reasoning.
>
> Chris

Hi Chris, sorry for my delayed response.  If an index_dir/derived_dir  
config option is included then I'm happy.  Setting it equal to  
database_dir is a sensible default.  Best,

Adam