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 >> > >
