I have virtualbox running on my windows laptop with a linux VM and a single-node installation of hadoop + pig for my needs, it is good enough to do pig scripts and UDFs and test them
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Alex McLintock <[email protected]>wrote: > Forgive me for asking a FAQ but what is the current IDE of choice for Pig? > > I used to use a text editor and command line. > I understand that PigPen (eclipse plugin) is no longer supported and > does not work with current Hadoop. (But I haven't seen the > documentation or wiki updated.) > I have heard of PigEditor and will try it out. > > We normally use IntelliJ so would love to hear anything that helps > integrate that. > > I am also a bit confused as to testing Pig. I am sitting in front of a > Windows box and would love to be able to debug my scripts locally, but > I don't see that is possible. > > If we have a bunch of developers I wonder if they should be all > testing on the same cluster, or have individual clusters, and how they > should be spun up and down.... >
