Yes, agreed. Fair point and apologies for not articulating same in my comment.
On 7/20/15, 4:10 PM, "Ted Dunning" <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Andrew Brust < >andrew.br...@bluebadgeinsights.com> wrote: > >> 1. It seems to me like Drill is at a point where, if you thread the needle >> perfectly, things generally work as advertised. That’s certainly an >> advance over the old, old days, where stuff that should have worked >> sometimes just didn’t. >> 2. Threading that needle can be super-hard, even for an experienced Java >> developer. >> > >This is definitely true for the problem of *extending* Drill. > >It is much less of a problem for *using* Drill, which is what the team has >spent much more effort on. See the Drill in 10 minutes article in the docs. > >To my mind, this prioritization is correct. But it shouldn't be exclusive >either. > >This is not to say that user-level fit and finish is done by any means, >just that people who extend the system will get lots more splinters.
