Bruce would be more suited to pushing the current Avro C code forward. He has more state in his head about where it was headed since he was doing the work. If we don't hear from Bruce, I could do the work to create a topic branch and revert Avro C to a better state for the release.
-- Matt *Hadoop World 2010 -- October 12 | New York -- **Register today!*<http://www.cloudera.com/company/press-center/hadoop-world-nyc/> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/12/2010 05:10 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > >> Just wondering: is there a release date planned yet for Avro 1.4.0? >> > > Not a hard date, but I'll be very disappointed if we don't get something > out this month. I've got a few more Java things that I hope to wrap up in > the next week. Other than that, Bruce claimed that Avro C was not in > release-shape. Bruce? Matt? Does anyone have time to spruce Avro C up a > bit? If someone doesn't come forward soon then I'll just start rolling > release candidates and calling votes. > > > There's a bug fix in there that I could really use, and I'm trying to >> decide if I should wait for it, work around it, roll my own pre-release jar, >> etc. >> > > I do sometimes post snapshot builds for developers. But if you're using > this in production you should either build your own patched version or wait > for a release. > > An example of a POM that depends on the latest 1.4 snapshot is: > > http://github.com/tdunning/Plume/blob/master/pom.xml > > Ivy configuration is similar. Avro's snapshots are at: > > http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/org/apache/avro/avro/ > > Doug >
