Thanks! Jonathan has changed the patch so that Ganglia is NOT built by default. Users can choose to enable Ganglia by adding options to the SPARK_BUILD_OPTS environmental variable.
Any thoughts on where we can add documentation for this option? Thanks! On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's make it a build option, defaulting to no. If a user of Bigtop wants > to take on GPL issues they can enable it. Then, we should be good. > > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:27 PM, RJ Nowling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > The patch under review for updating Spark adds the LPGL-licensed Ganglia > > client to the default build: > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/bigtop/pull/43/files#diff-b1c0f6f3b70f642daa39c5e2b612c530R32 > > > > My understanding is that GPL/LGPL code is generally bad. How do we want > to > > handle this? Just ask Jonathan to remove the Ganglia client from the > build > > (which is the default way Spark is built)? Or, do we want to follow > > Spark's example and enable Ganglia as an optional build option? > > > > The appropriate Spark JIRA is here: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1167 > > > > Thanks, > > RJ > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) >
