I disagree. Apex documentation is not the place to promote vendor offerings.
I suggested to refer to the download page, which already contains the DataTorrent link. Thomas On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Pramod Immaneni <pra...@datatorrent.com> wrote: > Hi Dean, > > There aren't many good options out there for users to get an environment up > with apex apps running easily or quickly. We all know how difficult it > would be for someone new to get an application up and running even if they > had a hadoop sandbox with apex. Also, for many when they download a sandbox > they not only want to be able to run something in a few steps, but also > have easy to use tools and see something visually. My suggestion is to keep > both the sandboxes. You can put the bigtop sandbox first in the list as it > is vendor neutral. > > Thanks > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Dean Lockgaard <dean.lockga...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > All, > > > > In the Sandbox section of the Apache Apex Development Environment Setup > > documentation ( > > https://apex.apache.org/docs/apex/apex_development_setup/#sandbox), > > instructions are provided for a vendor-specific Sandbox. > > > > I would like to propose that these instructions be changed to reference > the > > Apache Apex Sandbox instead, which is an Apache Bigtop build and > available > > via docker at https://hub.docker.com/r/apacheapex/sandbox. > > > > Regards, > > Dean > > >