Completely agree about preferring to link to the upstream project rather than a company's -- the only reason I'm using mesosphere's now is that I see no alternative from mesos.apache.org
I included instructions for both using Mesosphere's packages and building from scratch in the PR: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/756 On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com>wrote: > I’ll ask the Mesos folks about this. Unfortunately it might be tough to > link only to a company’s builds; but we can perhaps include them in > addition to instructions for building Mesos from Apache. > > Matei > > On May 12, 2014, at 11:55 PM, Gerard Maas <gerard.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Andrew, > > > > Mesosphere has binary releases here: > > http://mesosphere.io/downloads/ > > > > (Anecdote: I actually burned a CPU building Mesos from source. No > kidding - > > it was coming, as the laptop was crashing from time to time, but the > mesos > > build was that one drop too much) > > > > kr, Gerard. > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Andrew Ash <and...@andrewash.com> > wrote: > > > >> As far as I know, the upstream doesn't release binaries, only source > code. > >> The downloads page <https://mesos.apache.org/downloads/> for 0.18.0 > only > >> has a source tarball. Is there a binary release somewhere from Mesos > that > >> I'm missing? > >> > >> > >> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Andrew, > >>> > >>> Updating these docs would be great! I think this would be a welcome > >> change. > >>> > >>> In terms of packaging, it would be good to mention the binaries > >>> produced by the upstream project as well, in addition to Mesosphere. > >>> > >>> - Patrick > >>> > >>> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Andrew Ash <and...@andrewash.com> > >> wrote: > >>>> The docs for how to run Spark on Mesos have changed very little since > >>>> 0.6.0, but setting it up is much easier now than then. Does it make > >>> sense > >>>> to revamp with the below changes? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> You no longer need to build mesos yourself as pre-built versions are > >>>> available from Mesosphere: http://mesosphere.io/downloads/ > >>>> > >>>> And the instructions guide you towards compiling your own distribution > >> of > >>>> Spark, when you can use the prebuilt versions of Spark as well. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I'd like to split that portion of the documentation into two sections, > >> a > >>>> build-from-scratch section and a use-prebuilt section. The new > outline > >>>> would look something like this: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> *Running Spark on Mesos* > >>>> > >>>> Installing Mesos > >>>> - using prebuilt (recommended) > >>>> - pointer to mesosphere's packages > >>>> - from scratch > >>>> - (similar to current) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Connecting Spark to Mesos > >>>> - loading distribution into an accessible location > >>>> - Spark settings > >>>> > >>>> Mesos Run Modes > >>>> - (same as current) > >>>> > >>>> Running Alongside Hadoop > >>>> - (trim this down) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Does that work for people? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Thanks! > >>>> Andrew > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> PS Basically all the same: > >>>> > >>>> http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.6.0/running-on-mesos.html > >>>> http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.6.2/running-on-mesos.html > >>>> http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.7.3/running-on-mesos.html > >>>> http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.8.1/running-on-mesos.html > >>>> http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.9.1/running-on-mesos.html > >>>> > >>> > >> > https://people.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-1.0.0-rc3-docs/running-on-mesos.html > >>> > >> > >