On 3/18/2012 7:22 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Jos Backus<[email protected]> wrote:
"Finally, Red Hat seems to have largely switched to OpenJDK. This is
what JPackage is using for builds as well.
Speaking of which -- what's your read on JPackage. It feels dead to me
(and that's why Bigtop started packaging outside of immediate Bigdata
scope) but I could be wrong.
There has been no need to
build a nosrc.rpm for a while now, assuming you're willing to give up
the Oracle JDK for the OpenJDK in your base OS."
How do people here feel about this move?
I think we have to bite the bullet and start supporting OpenJDK. At least
as an alternative JDK to Oracle's one. That said I had reports about
silly incompatibilities (like what a null would produce when turned into
a string or something) that trip up Hadoop big time and nobody wants
to spend time debugging it.
Roman, It´s a lot of work but this effort is needed to do it.
I think that a good approach to do this is create a new branch on the
SVN called hadoop-openjdk to begin to test it.
What do you think?
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