On 10/23/09 11:16 AM, "Doug Cutting" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jeff Hammerbacher wrote: >> * Would it be useful to express the metadata block format in the >> specification as an Avro schema? The handshake is specified with a schema, >> and it might help folks grasp what's going on a bit sooner. > > Yes, this probably makes sense. Note that substantial changes to the > file format are currently being discussed in: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-160 > > Perhaps this would fit in as a part of that. Do we want to more officially open AVRO-160 to more than its title? We have already moved well past the pure "friendly to streaming" request which is partly my fault. I have one other file format concern I have not mentioned there because it may be out of scope. I can add it to AVRO-160 or make a new one.
