On 08/12/2011 11:11 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed that Roman filed a bug to explicitly support CDH (BIGTOP-20). > Does Bigtop intend to allow support any other proprietary forks of Hadoop or > just CDH? (eg. EMC's or Brisk, etc) Does it support Hadoop and CDH or just > CDH? The project proposal said it was for Hadoop, which is what comes from > Apache. > > This is important. Obviously, if Bigtop's scope is just CDH it is much less > interesting to me. On the other hand, for an Apache project to be exclusively > focused on one company's fork of Hadoop seems wrong. > > -- Owen
In case this is not obvious to others, BigTop has been working only against Apache releases since day one. Bigtop does not have any mechanism to deal with anything else than bare source and pristine releases (although one could use the mechanisms provided by rpm/deb). The URLs used to pull releases are defined in this file: https://github.com/apache/bigtop/blob/trunk/bigtop.mk They all point to bare pristine source releases. Please, don't hesitate to open tickets if you see anything wrong. By what has been defined during the incubation process, we also restrict ourselves from patching anything. So each release has to be rebuildable out of the box or we will not be able to include it in BigTop. Thanks, Bruno
