+1 -Jake
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Jie Yu <yujie....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am proposing making 'curl' a prerequisite when installing Mesos. > Currently, we require 'libcurl' being present when installing Mesos ( > http://mesos.apache.org/gettingstarted/). However, we found that it does > not compose well with our asynchronous runtime environment (i.e., it'll > block the current worker thread). > > Recent work on URI fetcher > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-3918> uses 'curl' directly, > instead of using 'libcurl' to fetch artifacts, because it composes well > with our async runtime env. 'curl' is installed by default in most systems > (e.g., OSX, centos, RHEL). > > So I am proposing adding 'curl' to our prerequisite list. Let me know if > you have any concern on this. I'll update the Getting Started doc if you > are OK with this change. > > Thanks, > - Jie >
