Hey,

Any views on this please? We would like to merge as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Marton

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Márton Balassi <mbala...@apache.org> wrote:

> During a recent PR of the streaming scala api [1] arose the issue of
> possibly changing the project structure. For the discussion it seems to me
> that we should address this as a separate issue. Things to note:
>
>    * According to Stephan for the batch part, there are discussions
> to combine the "flink-core", "flink-java" projects, possibly also the
> "flink-scala" project. We are starting to see too many interdependencies.
> [2]
>    * Streaming is currently under flink-addons, but we are positive that
> for the next version we can come up with a fairly stable api if needed. We
> would like to have it top level eventually.
>    * Minor issue to keep in mind: Developing our projects with both scala
> and java nature seems a bit flaky at the moment at least for Eclipse. [3]
> Proposed solutions are also there, just let us make sure to give new
> developers a smooth experience with Flink.
>
> I personally like the following suggestion: [2]
>
> We could, in the next version, go for something like
> - flink-core (core and batch, java & scala)
> - flink-streaming (java & scala)
> - flink-runtime
> - ...
>
> Ufuk also +1'd this.
>
> As currently the merge of [1] is blocking further streaming development
> (it also contains some refactor) I'd like to merge it asap to where it is
> currently (flink-scala), and let us figure out the project restructure
> separately. Added a JIRA for the latter. [4] If we choose to restructure
> the project it will need a commit anyway.
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-flink/pull/275
> [2]
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-flink/pull/275#issuecomment-68049822
> [3]
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-flink-dev/201412.mbox/%3CCANC1h_tLtGeOxT-aaA5KR6V4m-Efz8fSN5yKcdX%2B7sjeTdFBEw%40mail.gmail.com%3E
> [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1340
>
> Please when replying vote and comment on the restructure and merge
> separately.
>
> Best,
>
> Marton
>
>

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