Hi Ian, We are still porting the UDFs to types branch. I am hoping to be able to commit that later next week. Once it is there, you should be able to part your contributions to types branch.
Olga > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Holsman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Pig rework on the types branch > > are you after contributions/samples for piggybank on this branch? > > I recently created a non-regex based custom apache-logfile > loader for the types branch which might be helpful to others, > albeit it does currently not use the CLF format. > > Alan Gates wrote: > > All, > > > > As you have probably noticed if you've been watching the > mailing list, > > much work has gone into an almost complete rework of pig > over the last > > six months. This work has been done on the types branch in > order to > > avoid destabilizing the trunk. This work includes a > complete rewrite > > of the backend of pig, including the interface to map > reduce and the > > operators that execute a pig script on hadoop. It also > introduces a > > type system to pig. A number of new features have been added and > > performance has been significantly improved (averaging around 2x > > though varying greatly by script). And, while we strove to be > > backward compatible whenever possible, there are places > where changes > > are required in user scripts or UDFs. Full details of the > changes are > > available at http://wiki.apache.org/pig/TrunkToTypesChanges > > > > After much testing by the developers and a number of brave > users, we > > feel the code on the types branch is now approaching stability. We > > would like to suggest that users begin using the code on the types > > branch. At some point in the near future, we would like to > merge the > > types branch into trunk and then do a 0.2.0 release. > > > > Alan. > > > >
