On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 4:52 PM RJ Nowling <rnowl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Christopher, > > Jay Vyas and I work at Red Hat as well and are PMC members. (Actually, > tomorrow is my last day at Red Hat.) And we worked on a team with several > of the previous Hadoop, etc. Fedora maintainers. > > Bigtop uses a system where by some common build scripts are called by the > RPM and Debian package build tools. Bigtop would have to completely > rebuild the packaging system to meet Fedora guidelines. The current system > doesn't break down dependencies into separate packages or require that > packages depend on a single version of each dependency -- JARs are allowed > to bundle whatever version they want. > > The hurdles in the different approaches to packaging (optimized for > different needs) are quite large. > > RJ > > Hi RJ, thanks for the info. It might be the case that there's still some common concerns, and the two communities can help each other meet their separate needs.
