Hi, First of all I'm not sure if this is the correct audience for my question, apologies if it is not.
I have seen many accounts of Hadoop developers who had a hard time figuring out how to compile and install the Hadoop plug-in for Eclipse. My question is: are there any reasons, technical or otherwise, to distribute the plug-in as source code with Hadoop releases instead of as an Eclipse project? Having the plug-in as a separate Eclipse project would allow installling it via update site, which is the most common way of installing plug-ins. I also think it makes sense from a development standpoint, since contributors to the eclipse plugin are rarely the same ones that contribute to MapReduce. Regards, Rafael M.
