I realize that my earlier mail was to users@ which was probably not appropriate for this part:
When you do something like this: pig -useHCatalog hdfs://myserver:8020/load/scripts/mydir/myscript.pig Pig tries to load all jars (including those in PIG_CLASSPATH) from HDFS. That isn't necessarily desirable when you want to centralize your scripts to avoid a single point of failure but avoid some kind of multi-person jar hell or some kind of deployment fun for platform upgrades. Would anyone object if I add something like this?: pig -Dforcelocaljars=true -useHCatalog hdfs://myserver:8020/load/scripts/mydir/myscript.pig or should it be more like this pig -forceLocalJars -useHCatalog hdfs://myserver:8020/load/scripts/mydir/myscript.pig With your guidance I'll provide a patch. Thanks, Andy
