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
> >
>

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