I like the idea to remove the built-in spark distribution. I think Kylin could work well with all spark 2.1+
With Warm regards Billy Liu ShaoFeng Shi <shaofeng...@apache.org> 于2018年9月18日周二 下午5:35写道: > > Hello, > > Today Kylin's binary package ships an Apache Spark binary, the total package > is 297 MB in v2.5.0; I noticed that if the package is above 300 MB, it would > be rejected by Apache SVN. Now in the whole package, Spark takes about 200 > MB. Later when we upgrade to a higher version, the package can be bigger. > Without spark, the package is around 100 MB. > > Since we don't have customization to Spark, we can provide a > download-spark.sh script for the user to easily download. If the user already > has that in local, he just needs to copy or create a symbolic link in Kylin > folder. > > This will reduce 2/3 package size, and save time/bandwidth for distributing > Kylin. If you see a problem this change may bring, please complain. > > -- > Best regards, > > Shaofeng Shi 史少锋 >