+1 on bundling a script similar to that one
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Holden Karau <hol...@pigscanfly.ca> wrote: > Could we ship a shell script which downloads the sbt jar if not present > (like for example https://github.com/holdenk/slashem/blob/master/sbt )? > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hey All, > > > > Due to an ASF requirement, we recently merged a patch which removes > > the sbt jar from the build. This is necessary because we aren't > > allowed to distributed binary artifacts with our source packages. > > > > This means that instead of building Spark with "sbt/sbt XXX", you'll > > need to have sbt yourself and just run "sbt XXX" from within the Spark > > directory. This is similar to the maven build, where we expect users > > already have maven installed. > > > > You can download sbt at http://www.scala-sbt.org/. It's okay to just > > download the most recent version of sbt, since sbt knows how to fetch > > other versions of itself and will always use the one we specify in our > > build file to compile spark. > > > > - Patrick > > > > > > -- > Cell : 425-233-8271 >
