You'll need Thrift installed to generate the _client_ code: the server code is embedded within Cassandra.
-----Original Message----- From: "S Ahmed" <sahmed1...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:49pm To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: server needs thrift to run also? confused, why does the installation guide say to build and make it then? http://github.com/ericflo/twissandra <http://github.com/ericflo/twissandra>twissandar is for 0.6.1 is that why? i.e. it was embedded in a later version? On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Stu Hood <stu.h...@rackspace.com> wrote: > The Thrift server is embedded in Cassandra, and starts by default. Look for > references to Thrift on: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted > > Thanks, > Stu > > -----Original Message----- > From: "S Ahmed" <sahmed1...@gmail.com> > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:43pm > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: server needs thrift to run also? > > I'm trying to follow along the twissandra installation instructions. > > So to get it running I have to install Thrift. > > So thrift runs as another service? So communication is done via thrift, > which then communicates to Cassandra on another port? > > >
