Could we ship a shell script which downloads the sbt jar if not present (like for example https://github.com/holdenk/slashem/blob/master/sbt )?
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey All, > > Due to an ASF requirement, we recently merged a patch which removes > the sbt jar from the build. This is necessary because we aren't > allowed to distributed binary artifacts with our source packages. > > This means that instead of building Spark with "sbt/sbt XXX", you'll > need to have sbt yourself and just run "sbt XXX" from within the Spark > directory. This is similar to the maven build, where we expect users > already have maven installed. > > You can download sbt at http://www.scala-sbt.org/. It's okay to just > download the most recent version of sbt, since sbt knows how to fetch > other versions of itself and will always use the one we specify in our > build file to compile spark. > > - Patrick > -- Cell : 425-233-8271
