On: RethinkDB example apps

[dkhenry]

I would love to try out your DB, but your build system is garbage, and I mean that in the most constructive way possible. I know you guys put lots of effort into it, I can tell as I am reading through it trying to get it to compile on my Fedora system. Please for all that is good in this world take the time _now_ and switch to a sane build system. I know its cool that you scripted everything in Make, but this is stupid how hard it is to build on Fedora.

I am putting together a patch and instructions for fedora, but this is silly.

EDIT: https://gist.github.com/4696023 Turned out to not be too big of a change BTW.

[coffeemug → dkhenry]

I would love to try out your DB, but your build system is garbage

If you only knew how much we agree with you :) We have an engineer working on that now, so it will soon be much, much nicer. Also, thanks for the instructions, I'll post them on the build page after I confirm everything.

[gnud → coffeemug]

I'm the maintainer of the archlinux AUR pkgbuild - a better build system would be much appreciated :) For now, I do 3-4 sed invocations over your various Makefiles.

If you want to have a look at what we need to hack our way around, take a look at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/re/rethinkdb/PKGBUILD

[coffeemug → gnud]

Thanks -- I've opened an issue for the new build system https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/286 and posted this info. We'll try to take it into account as we develop the new one. Please comment if you have feedback/ideas!

[dkhenry → coffeemug]

I am excited to hear that. I know it means pulling resources away from developing features, but seeing the plumbing taken care of properly really lends confidence to those who might be early adopters of a young project.