On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Allen Wittenauer <awittena...@linkedin.com> wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Eli Collins wrote: >> >> - The packaging is Linux specific, we've gotten push back when trying >> to contribute modifications upstream with Linuxisms since Apache >> supports non-Linux platforms (namely Solaris). > > Oh come now Eli. Just say it: I push everyone really hard on making > things multiple platform to the point of being as trollish as this Ian fellow > that started this thread. > > Most of the Linux-specific modifications that I've seen that have been > submitted are specifically to avoid configuring the system properly*, built > in such a way that they weren't pluggable for other operating systems, or > could be done in a much more POSIX/OS-agnostic way. The fact that there are > parts of Hadoop that don't work properly on Mac OS X (despite the > overwhelming number of Mac laptops in use by Hadoop core devs) always struck > me as particularly funny when people get frustrated with me when I point this > problems out. > > It is also worth mentioning that, AFAIK, only Linux and AIX have > OS-specific code in Hadoop. Attempts to get fixes (not even features!) for > specific issues for other operating systems have been fully rejected with the > cry of "we the community don't want to support specific OS issues in the > core", even tho some of them are direct hinderance to the proper operation of > Hadoop on those OSes. We have a very big double standard at work here.
Hey Allen, Sorry for the slow response, Google marked this as spam ;) Are there outstanding issues building Hadoop on OSX/Solaris? I thought we got all those in trunk. Thanks, Eli
