Thank you very much, Jim! However, opaque dependencies are always a worry and it will affect people's choices.
On 2020/07/08 14:23:43, Jim Apple <jbap...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi LiFu! I'm Jim, and I started contributing to the Impala project in 2015. > > When we were working on learning about Apache and ASF standards back when > Impala was incubating, this question came up. The analogy that we learned > was that Apache projects are not, themselves, owned by anyone other than > the Foundation, they sometimes rely on software projects, such as Microsoft > Windows, that are owned by another corporation. > > While that's the organizational rationale, I think the community would > welcome a build and deploy process that used only officially released > snapshots from the other Apache projects that Impala depends upon. I think > this is a question of someone taking the time to put in the work, similarly > to how Impala has supported only x86-64 for years, but there are new > efforts to make it work on AArch64. > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 6:38 AM LiFu He <hel...@apache.org> wrote: > > > At the same time, I'm curious why an open source project relies on a > > business product, though I understand that there are some historical > > reasons. Could anybody share more info? > > > > > > On 2020/07/07 12:46:44, LiFu He <hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > I have a question that why Impala relies on the CDH/CDP > > > distribution(hadoop/hive/hbase/sentry/ranger)? And is it possible to > > switch > > > to Apache version? Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > --helifu > > > > > >
