In the discussion this morning, we talked about what to name the runtime module we want to add for Hive, iceberg-hive-runtime. Unfortunately, iceberg-hive is the Hive _metastore_ module, so it is a bit misleading to name the Hive runtime module iceberg-hive-runtime. It was also pointed out that the iceberg-hive module is confusing for other reasons: someone unfamiliar with it would expect to use it to work with Hive, but it has no InputFormat or StorageHandler classes.
Both problems are a result of a poor name for iceberg-hive. Maybe we should rename iceberg-hive to iceberg-hive-metastore. The drawback is that a module people could use will disappear (I'm assuming we won't rename iceberg-mr to iceberg-hive right away). But most people probably use a runtime Jar, so it might be a good time to make this change before there are more people depending on it. What does everyone think? Should we do the rename? rb -- Ryan Blue
