On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Gary Helmling <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >>> >> >> I agree with not bundling Hadoop for RPM/deb packages where the >> package management system can take care of the dependencies. >> >> I'm -1 on excluding the Hadoop jar from the tarball distribution, >> however. Forcing newcomers to download a Hadoop distribution in >> addition to HBase, just to be able to start up a local _stand-alone_ >> HBase instance for testing is shooting ourselves in the foot as a >> project. We already get flak for being too complicated to run, let's >> not add to it. > > Ok, so it sounds like we have a consensus on: > 1. make tests MR-agnostic > 2. making Hadoop an optional dependency with the lowest (current > version of Hadoop being the default). > 3. keeping Hadoop jar as part of the tarball dsitro > > I'll open up JIRAs accordingly. Thanks for the feedback! >
Sounds reasonable. St.Ack
