Windows

[bajtos]

The validation suite does not wok on windows. See the branch feature/fix-windows for current work in progress.

1. npm-exec uses hard-coded path separator. This is fixed by eeae5da.
2. It seems difficult or even impossible to start CouchDB with custom configuration.
   • The first part of the problem is child_process.spawn ignores PATHEXT on Windows nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#2318. Hopefully the workaround via cmd /s /c should work.
   • However, couchdb.bat ignores command-line arguments, thus there is no way how to pass config files to the couch erlang app. It may be possible to reimplement couchdb.bat in node. I did look at that briefly, but was not able to figure out the exact command-line to execute.
   • Note that -a additional-config.ini is implemented by the couchdb wrapper script, not by the erlang app.