Hi Rafael, We do have a new project developing the plugin separately. Please check out and join the development efforts at http://hdt.incubator.apache.org (Hadoop Development Tools).
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Rafael Medeiros Teixeira <rafaelmed...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- Harsh J
