[BIGTOP-640] Sync up dependency library versions automatically

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: general
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Herman Chen
• Created: 21/Jun/12 15:36
• Updated: 26/Mar/13 20:37

Description

Currently BigTop hardcodes the versions of dependency libraries to use, e.g. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/bigtop/trunk/bigtop.mk uses 1.0.10 for jsvc. Let's say hypothetically that HDFS fixes a bug by bumping it to 1.0.11, then BigTop would have to be updated manually to reflect that. I can imagine scenarios where a static definition in BigTop is desired, but a way to automatically pick up the projects' dependencies seem valuable.