I also prefer sbt on Mac. You might want to add checking for / getting Python 2.6+ (though most modern Macs should have it), and maybe numpy as an optional dependency. I often just point people to Anaconda.
— Jeremy ------------------------- jeremyfreeman.net @thefreemanlab On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:28 PM, Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > So back to my original question... :) > > If we wanted to post this guide to the user list or to a gist for easy > reference, would we rather have Maven or SBT listed? And is there anything > else about the steps that should be modified? > > Nick > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> Oh right, we're talking about the bundled sbt of course. >> And I didn't know Maven wasn't installed anymore! >> >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Hari Shreedharan >> <hshreedha...@cloudera.com> wrote: >>> The sbt executable that is in the spark repo can be used to build sbt >>> without any other set up (it will download the sbt jars etc). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Hari >>> >>