Theoretically, it could also be used to specify an arbitrary hadoop compilation target, but its always been so different (in terms of required modules) that it never really could work out :-/
------------------- Jesse Yates @jesse_yates jyates.github.com On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:29 PM, ramkrishna vasudevan < [email protected]> wrote: > Oh I see. So there was already an discussion on that. It was my ignorance. > Sorry about that. Thanks for the replies. > > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Stack, > > > > > > Do you know why we use (-D) properties rather than using maven's > > > -PprofileName to enable profiles? Maybe there's a discussion someplace > > > where I can familiarize myself with this history? > > > > > > > I believe it was our Nicolas Liochon that came up w/ this mechanism for > > enabling profiles. I do not know the why. > > > > St.Ack > > >
