Glad to see this.  I agree, if we were to switch to maven for build that
should be .5 or later.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote:

> For a first pass at how this will look check out
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-358
>
> Alan.
>
> On Apr 3, 2012, at 11:16 AM, David Capwell wrote:
>
> > " 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'vemissedit.
>   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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