not sure about the right answer to this. but you'll need protoc as well, no?

Alejandro

On Nov 4, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> right now I'm faced with the boring problem of updating the
> toolchain and build slaves for the Bigtop 0.5.0 release. This
> time I decided to do it right and look at:
>    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-601
> 
> Given that at this point the content of this proposed bigtop-build
> package is going to be limited to ant, maven and forrest I'm
> wondering whether it wouldn't be nicer if packaged those 3
> as bigtop-ant, bigtop-maven and bigtop-forrest respectively
> and had an honest build dependencies on them in our
> SPEC/control files.
> 
> We can go even so far as to make sure that we track which
> of our supported platforms package that stuff  natively
> and have the proper dependencies in place (if possible).
> 
> I guess my biggest question is this -- on platforms where
> we would still have to have bigtop-[maven|ant|forrest]
> as a formal build dependency -- will this upset anything?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> P.S. This doesn't touch upon an issue of packaging JDK.
> At the moment -- I'm not solving it with the hopes that
> we can simply transition to OpenJDK 7 at some point
> (which seems to be available on most new platforms).

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