Agreed, didn't realize this was in the documentation page. On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Thomas Weise <[email protected]> wrote:
> I disagree. Apex documentation is not the place to promote vendor > offerings. > > I suggested to refer to the download page, which already contains the > DataTorrent link. > > Thomas > > > On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Pramod Immaneni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Dean, > > > > There aren't many good options out there for users to get an environment > up > > with apex apps running easily or quickly. We all know how difficult it > > would be for someone new to get an application up and running even if > they > > had a hadoop sandbox with apex. Also, for many when they download a > sandbox > > they not only want to be able to run something in a few steps, but also > > have easy to use tools and see something visually. My suggestion is to > keep > > both the sandboxes. You can put the bigtop sandbox first in the list as > it > > is vendor neutral. > > > > Thanks > > > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Dean Lockgaard <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > All, > > > > > > In the Sandbox section of the Apache Apex Development Environment Setup > > > documentation ( > > > https://apex.apache.org/docs/apex/apex_development_setup/#sandbox), > > > instructions are provided for a vendor-specific Sandbox. > > > > > > I would like to propose that these instructions be changed to reference > > the > > > Apache Apex Sandbox instead, which is an Apache Bigtop build and > > available > > > via docker at https://hub.docker.com/r/apacheapex/sandbox. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Dean > > > > > >
