Updated http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/DevelopingOnTrunkAfter279Merge
and filed MAPREDUCE-2901.

+Vinod

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]>wrote:

> protoc is invoked from an antrun plugin configuration.
>
> we could check using ant tasks that protoc is avail, and fail with a
> message
> if not.
>
> Thxs.
>
> Alejandro
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Eli Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > IMO, committing generated code is not a good idea. I'd rather put the
> > burden
> > > on developers of installing protoc  (they have to do it for Java,
> Maven,
> > > Forrest, and all the autoconf stuff if compiling native).
> > >
> > > I would document protoc as required tool.
> > >
> >
> > Alejandro - is there an easy way we can make maven spit out a nicer
> > error message (eg check for protoc on the path and print a message if
> > it's not present)?
> >
> > (Thank you Mahadev btw for pointing out the fix!)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eli
> >
>

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