I'd like to change my binding vote to -1, -0, -1. Considering the hadoop stack/ecosystem as a whole, I think the best cross platform scripting language to adopt is jruby for following reasons:
1. HBase already adopted jruby for HBase shell, which all current platform vendors support. 2. We can control the version of language implementation at a per release basis. 3. We don't have to introduce new dependencies in the de facto hadoop stack. (see 1). I'm all for improving multi-platform support. I think the best way to do this is to have a thin native script wrappers (using env vars) to call the cross-platform jruby scripts. __Luke On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Luke Lu <l...@vicaya.com> wrote: > Thanks for the voting thread. Otherwise, many committers would have missed > it. > > I agree that this is a superset of code change that has larger impact than > typical code change. > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Matt Foley <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > Finally, this is code change, so I'm not sure why we are doing a vote. >> >> >> I view this as a tools issue, that affects questions that go beyond the >> one-time choice of how to write (or re-write) saveVersion.sh. Also Aaron >> (atm) recommended that I bring it to the list. So here we are :-) >> > >
