Hadoop 2 requires protoc for building as Alejandro mentions, and an optimistic read of the future says we will eventually move on from Hadoop 1. protoc is not difficult to download, configure, compile, and install -- and some distros have packages for it. I may have been bitten ~10 times in 2012 for lacking it here and there but that would not be the typical experience. I was also bitten by needing a recent enough version of Maven. I see lacking protoc as the same type of build requirement inconvenience. Seems reasonable to adopt a maven plugin to invoke protoc and a binding of this to our build targets.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]>wrote: > in Hadoop proto files are compiled on every build, thus we require protoc > install. > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
