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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:41:56 -0800
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Subject: Re: [VOTE] introduce Python as build-time and run-time dependency for
 Hadoop and throughout Hadoop stack
From: Suresh Srinivas <suresh@hortonworks.com>
To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org, mattf@apache.org
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+1, +1, +1

Regards,
Suresh


On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Matt Foley <mattf@apache.org> wrote:

> For discussion, please see previous thread "[PROPOSAL] introduce Python as
> build-time and run-time dependency for Hadoop and throughout Hadoop stack".
>
> This vote consists of three separate items:
>
> 1. Contributors shall be allowed to use Python as a platform-independent
> scripting language for build-time tasks, and add Python as a build-time
> dependency.
> Please vote +1, 0, -1.
>
> 2. Contributors shall be encouraged to use Maven tasks in combination with
> either plug-ins or Groovy scripts to do cross-platform build-time tasks,
> even under ant in Hadoop-1.
> Please vote +1, 0, -1.
>
> 3. Contributors shall be allowed to use Python as a platform-independent
> scripting language for run-time tasks, and add Python as a run-time
> dependency.
> Please vote +1, 0, -1.
>
> Note that voting -1 on #1 and +1 on #2 essentially REQUIRES contributors to
> use Maven plug-ins or Groovy as the only means of cross-platform build-time
> tasks, or to simply continue using platform-dependent scripts as is being
> done today.
>
> Vote closes at 12:30pm PST on Saturday 1 December.
> ---------
> Personally, my vote is +1, +1, +1.
> I think #2 is preferable to #1, but still has many unknowns in it, and
> until those are worked out I don't want to delay moving to cross-platform
> scripts for build-time tasks.
>
> Best regards,
> --Matt
>


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