Hi Chinmay, How about using linux distributions like deb/rpm, why create one more way of distribution?
-Priyanka On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 8:34 AM, Chinmay Kolhatkar <chin...@datatorrent.com> wrote: > Dear Community, > > Currently Apache Apex does not have a deliverable tarball which bundles the > dependent jars and apex cli which user can just download and get started > with. > > Having this would be also be useful for current integration with Apache > Bigtop as well. Currently in bigtop, the bigtop build downloads the src tar > and builds the packages from it. Ideally the bigtop build should just > download the deliverable tarball (containing packaged dependency for cli > for ready to use). > > Also, one of the output of bigtop rpm/deb goes in docker image of apache > apex. The Dockerfile for the same resides in my public repository. > > Considering above I have following proposals: > 1. Create a new deliverable tarball in apex-core which will bundle all > required and sufficient dependencies for user to quickly get started on an > existing hadoop cluster. > > 2. Once we have the deliverable available in next apex-core release, we can > update apache/bigtop to point to use that tarball. > > 3. There is also a docker image for apache/apex, the Dockerfile for which > resides in https://github.com/chinmaykolhatkar/docker-pool. I would prefer > if this is moved to apex-core repository so that the releases of docker and > apex-core can be aligned better and also become part of Apache repo. > > Please share your opinion on this. > > Thanks, > Chinmay. >
