Also adding mentors.

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Michael Ho <[email protected]> wrote:

> I guess point number 1 is more about requiring all the thirdparty binary
> for getting Impala to build
> and work to be located at a location specified by the environment variable
> $IMPALA_TOOLCHAIN.
>
> It's not strictly necessary for users to use exactly the version of
> toolchain we provide. For instance,
> a user can check out a copy of our native-toolchain (which is public) and
> tinkle with it or they can
> create their own version of IMPALA_TOOLCHAIN as long as they have all the
> necessary binaries
> we expect.
>
> The user can also feel free to create a symlink to the system library of
> their choice in the
> $IMPALA_TOOLCHAIN directory if they choose to do so.
>
> My question is more about whether we should clean up our build script so
> that we expect to find
> everything we need to build in $IMPALA_TOOLCHAIN ?
>
> Michael
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Tim Armstrong <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Michael Ho <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Following up on the discussion about IMPALA-3223, I'd like to send out
>>> an email about the removal of thirdparty. In particular, the following
>>> changes
>>> will happen in stages. Please voice your comment before I commit to
>>> any action.
>>>
>>> 1. Requires $IMPALA_TOOLCHAIN to be set in order to build Impala.
>>> In other words, all the logic in the build script to build thirdparty
>>> component
>>> if $IMPALA_TOOLCHAIN is not set will be removed.
>>>
>>
>> I think we probably need to make a firm decision about whether we're
>> going to try to support non-toolchain builds. In the past we've said that
>> it would be nice to allow building Impala with system libraries (even if we
>> don't put special effort into supporting it), but I don't think we've
>> committed to the idea, or committed to toolchain builds only.
>>
>> If we're going to support non-toolchain builds we would need some kind of
>> testing to prevent it breaking all the time.
>>
>> It would be nice to have, but I'm not sure anyone has the time/motivation
>> to do it. What do people think?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2. Remove build_thirdparty.sh
>>>
>>> 3. Move postgressql-jdbc and may be llama-minikdc (?) to toolchain and
>>> update
>>> scripts about it.
>>>
>>
>>> 4. Remove everything in thirdparty directory except for the following
>>> components:
>>> hadoop, hbase, hive, llama and sentry.
>>>
>>> 5. Update integration jenkins job to copy the snapshots of the
>>> components above to
>>> internal jenkins repo in addition to checking them in to github. Update
>>> bootstrap_toolchain
>>> to point to internal repos.
>>>
>>> 6. Remove thirdparty directory and update integration job to not check
>>> in to git repo.
>>>
>>> After step (3) is done, we can already push the changes of the build
>>> script to ASF tree
>>> and check in snapshots of hadoop, hbase, llama and sentry to S3 and
>>> hopefully
>>> get the build to work.
>>>
>>
>> We can probably test this out as we go by manually copying the artifacts
>> to the impala-incubator repo. I did a test of this yesterday (running
>> download_requirements and copying thirdparty) and it built ok.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Michael
>



-- 
Thanks,
Michael

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