" and use maven to fetch Hive instead"  you mean use the maven repo or
would this patch move off ant and to maven?

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote:

> I believe the artifact name is controlled by the setting of version, so
> you could set it to whatever you wanted when you built your local copy.
>
> Alan.
>
> On Apr 3, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Travis Crawford wrote:
>
> > Will the artifacts still have SNAPSHOT in their name? If so, it may be
> > useful to have a unique element in their name to distinguish artifacts.
> >
> > --travis
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Alan Gates <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> No, I'm working on a patch to Hive to allow publishing changes to a
> local
> >> maven repo.  So you would be able to make your changes, then publish
> them
> >> to your maven or ivy cache, and then have HCat pick those up.
> >>
> >> Alan.
> >>
> >> On Apr 3, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Travis Crawford wrote:
> >>
> >>> What's the workflow for making a change in Hive that's needed by
> >> HCatalog?
> >>> I believe the initial motivation for using an SVN extern is hive
> changes
> >>> will be needed faster than Hive releases updates. Will the new process
> be
> >>> waiting for a new Hive release with the necessary patches?
> >>>
> >>> --travis
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Alan Gates <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> As you probably saw, late last week I created a tag for a rc2 for
> >> HCatalog
> >>>> 0.4.0.  However, I want to wait before rolling the release candidate.
> >> Last
> >>>> week a furor erupted on the incubator general list as to whether
> release
> >>>> artifacts could have _any_ binary files (including jars) in them at
> all,
> >>>> with some authoritative voices arguing that they could not.  You can
> see
> >>>> the thread here
> >>>>
> >>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201203.mbox/%3CCAOFYJNY%3DEjVHrWVvAedR3OKwCv-BkTaCbEu0ufp7OZR_gpCTiA%40mail.gmail.com%3Eifyou'vemissed
>  it.  The outcome of that discussion is not clear to me,
> >>>> but I think our next release candidate will have a better chance of
> >>>> approval in the IPMC if there are no jars in it.  We can remove the
> >>>> HCatalog jars from our release, but unfortunately the Hive code we
> wrap
> >>>> also contains jars.
> >>>>
> >>>> The good news is that we are already working towards splitting out
> >>>> HCatalog from Hive, both in terms of the source code and releases.  It
> >>>> seems to me the best course is to quickly finish that work in the next
> >> fews
> >>>> days and incorporate that in 0.4 before rolling another release
> >> candidate.
> >>>> This will realize our goal of getting HCatalog to no longer extern
> Hive
> >>>> and make our releases easier.
> >>>>
> >>>> The exact proposal is:
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm working on a patch to remove hive/extern from our source tree and
> >> use
> >>>> maven to fetch Hive instead.  I hope to post that later today.
> >>>>
> >>>> Giri is working on a patch to to remove Hive code from the HCat
> >>>> distribution tarball.  He should post that soon.
> >>>>
> >>>> Giri is also working on a patch to Bigtop to do rpms for HCatalog.  As
> >>>> part of this we'll drop the rpm target from our build.xml.  This work
> >>>> should also be done in the next few days.
> >>>>
> >>>> Once the first two items are done, I'll roll another release
> candidate.
> >>>> Thoughts?
> >>>>
> >>>> Alan.
> >>
> >>
>
>

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