[jira] [Assigned] (COUCHDB-1012) Utility to help plugin developers manage paths

["Randall Leeds (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1012?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Randall Leeds reassigned COUCHDB-1012:
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    Assignee: Noah Slater  (was: Randall Leeds)

Take it home, Noah.

> Utility to help plugin developers manage paths
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1012
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1012
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Build System
>            Reporter: Randall Leeds
>            Assignee: Noah Slater
>             Fix For: 1.2
>
>         Attachments: 0001-add-couch-config-file-used-to-ease-the-build-of-plug.patch, 0001-add-couch-config-file-used-to-ease-the-build-of-plug.patch, 0001-support-pkg-config-for-plugins-COUCHDB-1012.patch
>
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> Developers may want to write plugins (like GeoCouch) for CouchDB. Many hooks in the configuration system allow loading arbitrary Erlang modules to handle various internal tasks, but currently there is no straightforward and portable way for developers of these plugins to discover the location of the CouchDB library files.
> Two options that have been proposed are to use pkg-config or install a separate script that could be invoked (e.g. as couch-config --erl-libs) to discover important CouchDB installation paths.
> As far as I know the loudest argument against pkg-config is lack of support for Windows.

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