>From the user perspective, I don't think it's a big deal either way. It looks like contributors to Homebrew are pretty on top of keeping things updated.
For the users, Apache managing this would mostly mean a) a shorter period of time from release to brew availability, and b) the brew installation method is now "official". Offering b) to users does indeed require a commitment from the dev team, so that definitely should be weighed carefully. Nick On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Andrew Ash <and...@andrewash.com> wrote: > What's the advantage of Apache maintaining the brew installer vs users? > > Apache handling it means more work on this dev team, but probably a better > experience for brew users. Just wanted to weigh pros/cons before > committing to support this installation method. > > Andrew > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Nicholas Chammas < > nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Matei, >> >> You might want to comment on that issue Sherl linked to, or perhaps this >> one <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/30228>, to ask about >> how Apache can manage this going forward. I know that mikemcquaid >> <https://github.com/mikemcquaid> is very active on the Homebrew repo and >> is one of the maintainers. >> >> Nick >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Sheryl John <shery...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Cool. >>> Looked at the Pull Requests, the upgrade to 1.0.0 was just merged >>> yesterday. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/30231 >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/apache-spark.rb >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Interesting, does anyone know the people over there who set it up? It >>>> would be good if Apache itself could publish packages there, though I’m not >>>> sure what’s involved. Since Spark just depends on Java and Python it should >>>> be easy for us to update. >>>> >>>> Matei >>>> >>>> On Jun 18, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Nick Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> OS X / Homebrew users, >>>> >>>> It looks like you can now download Spark simply by doing: >>>> >>>> brew install apache-spark >>>> >>>> I’m new to Homebrew, so I’m not too sure how people are intended to use >>>> this. I’m guessing this would just be a convenient way to get the latest >>>> release onto your workstation, and from there use spark-ec2 to launch >>>> clusters. >>>> >>>> Anyway, just a cool thing to point out. >>>> >>>> Nick >>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> View this message in context: Spark is now available via Homebrew >>>> <http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Spark-is-now-available-via-Homebrew-tp7856.html> >>>> Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive >>>> <http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/> at Nabble.com. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -Sheryl >>> >> >> >
