[BIGTOP-1097] introduce bigtop-groovy package

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: general
• Assignee: Konstantin I Boudnik
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 25/Sep/13 20:04
• Updated: 11/Feb/14 23:37
• Resolved: 11/Feb/14 23:37

Description

Bigtop platform depends on groovy extensively and we see a trend to introduce new functionality into the cluster deployment, etc. that will greatly benefit from the presence of a dynamic, functional scripting language on top of JVM.

Hence, it makes sense to provide Groovy runtime environment as a part of Bigtop installable stack (e.g. think of bigtop-utils type of package). It will be lightweight and only needs to include a couple of jar files from a standard Groovy distribution. There's no need to build Groovy from scratch but just download the binary archive, extract jars we need, and wrap them into a Linux package.

Issue Links

• blocks: BIGTOP-952 init-hdfs.sh is dog slow. Let's replace it with a direct HDFS API calls and better layout management
• is blocked by: BIGTOP-1199 Makefile for deb packing needs to support zip archives