On Feb 3, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Xuefu Zhang <xzh...@cloudera.com> wrote: > 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.
Yeah, I agree in principle. But to create a small independent module in Apache you have to go through the whole incubator process. I think a library within the Hive namespace is an acceptable compromise. When that is complete I will look at moving it elsewhere, say commons or as a sub-project within http://db.apache.org/. (Am I the first person to note that Apache effectively discourages code re-use because they set a very high bar for creating a project?) Julian
