I guess another point that I tried to make is that if sqlline fork is bundled with Hive, it defeats the purpose of allowing other projects to share the same code line. I'd like to see the possibility of fork sqlline to apache as an independent module.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Julian Hyde <julianh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 3, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Xuefu Zhang <xzh...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > I'm thinking if it makes more sense to fork sqlline > > directly into Apache. upon its completion, Hive gets rid of its copy of > > sqlline and creates a dependency on the forked sqlline instead. I guess > > this is a top-down approach and the benefits are immediate across > multiple > > projects. > > You're basically suggesting that I do step 3 before 1 and 2. It makes > sense, because it reduces risk. > > I have logged https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6361 with an > updated proposal. > > Julian
