On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:00 PM, RJ Nowling <[email protected]> wrote: > Can we articulate the value of packages over tarballs? In my view, packages > are useful for managing dependencies and in-place updates.
In my view packages are the only way to get into the traditional IT deployment infrastructures. These are the same infrastructures that don't want to touch Ambari at all, since they are all standardized on Puppet/Chef and traditional Linux packaging. There's quite a few of them out there still, despite all the push of Silicon Valley to get everybody to things like Docker, etc. > Related question: what are BigTop's goals? Just integration testing? > Full blown distro targeted at end users? Packaging for others to build > distros on top of? All of the above? ;-) Seriously, I think we need to provide a way for consumers of bigdata technology to be able to deploy it in the most efficient way. This means that we are likely to need to embrace different ways of packaging our stuff. Thanks, Roman.
