Stack, IMO a Hbase release should not include Hadoop JARs. Then, it would require a Hadoop installed to run. And it would use the Hadoop 'hadoop' CLI to start.
Thanks. Alejandro On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]> wrote: >> While not 100% correct, IMO making Hadoop an optional dependency it >> may be the way to go for Hadoop downstream projects. By doing this, >> the users of the downstream project can set the version of Hadoop they >> need and do the exclusions for that version they use without having to >> worry about all exclusions for all possible Hadoop versions. >> > > What would this look like AA? We'd denote an Hadoop version for > compile but we'd not bundle an hadoop in what we ship? > > Some work was done (by you?) to favor an hadoop specified by > environment variables. You think we should tend this direction? > > What for the case where you want to do a standalone hbase install, > where you want to run a single hbase instance? > > Good stuff, > St.Ack >
