Re: Reducing confusion around client libraries

2010-12-06 Thread Hannes Schmidt
Probably chiming in a little late here, but I liked having the Thrift API documentation in a prominent place. It is a canonical reference that describes on a logical level what the system can and can't do. Without that information it would have been much harder to understand how to use the Hector c

Re: Thoughts on issue 697 (Mitigate unpublished dependencies when using Cassandra with Maven)

2010-04-11 Thread Hannes Schmidt
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Tatu Saloranta wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Hannes Schmidt > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Gary Dusbabek > wrote: > ... > >> Why? "To make things easier for mvn users" isn't enough of an &g

Re: Thoughts on issue 697 (Mitigate unpublished dependencies when using Cassandra with Maven)

2010-04-10 Thread Hannes Schmidt
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Gary Dusbabek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:42, Hannes Schmidt wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Gary Dusbabek > wrote: > >> > >> > >> Cassandra is a community of volunteers. If someone is willing to take &

Re: Thoughts on issue 697 (Mitigate unpublished dependencies when using Cassandra with Maven)

2010-04-09 Thread Hannes Schmidt
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Hannes Schmidt > wrote: > > Well, Eric, let's start with you: Would you be in support of moving > > Cassandra to a Maven build and abandoning Ant/Ivy or at least have the >

Re: Thoughts on issue 697 (Mitigate unpublished dependencies when using Cassandra with Maven)

2010-04-09 Thread Hannes Schmidt
ill try to put my prejudices aside as I make a few points though. > Good. > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 19:42, Hannes Schmidt wrote: > > In a nutshell, I disagree with the decision to resolve > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-697 > > > > a

Re: Thoughts on issue 697 (Mitigate unpublished dependencies when using Cassandra with Maven)

2010-04-09 Thread Hannes Schmidt
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 08:52 -0500, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Gary Dusbabek > wrote: > > > Cassandra is a community of volunteers. If someone is willing to take > > > that half-hour and make Cassandra a mvn-frien

Re: Thoughts on issue 697 (Mitigate unpublished dependencies when using Cassandra with Maven)

2010-04-08 Thread Hannes Schmidt
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 17:42 -0700, Hannes Schmidt wrote: > > In a nutshell, I disagree with the decision to resolve > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-697 > > > > as Won't Fix.

Thoughts on issue 697 (Mitigate unpublished dependencies when using Cassandra with Maven)

2010-04-08 Thread Hannes Schmidt
In a nutshell, I disagree with the decision to resolve https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-697 as Won't Fix. Here's why: One of the central motivations behind Maven was to once and for all get rid of binary dependencies in source repositories. You, the Cassandra committers operating