On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 02:55AM, Christopher wrote: > > Ideally, I think a long-term goal would be to try to eliminate the need for > Bigtop. It'd be nice if I could just go to my preferred distribution, and > install using the distro's provided package manager. However, because the
I believe there's a bit of an misinterpretation here. Bigtop isn't all about packaging. There's also deployment aka 'operational knowledge', great deal of expertise about what works and what doesn't, a community of people highly skilled in all aspects of the Apache Bigdata ecosystem and distributed computing, and so on and so far. Besides, Bigtop cuts _across_ the distributions, so there's a bit of the value of the "central hub" as well. If guys at the Fedora want to go into the Hadoop distribution ordeal - you're more than welcome. I don't think any other Linux distribution does, but it could be just my own misguided view of the world. And of course what Olaf said: the particular complications of the stack creation stemmed from the need of multiple versions of the same binaries. Not always, but once in a while. Hope it helps. But we'd very happy to have more folks from the Fedora community helping to make the particular packaging format better and more relevant and standard. Regards, Cos
