But Howl does layer on some additional code, right? https://github.com/yahoo/howl/tree/howl/howl
JVS On Feb 3, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Ashutosh Chauhan wrote: > There are none as of today. In the past, whenever we had to have > changes, we do it in a separate branch in Howl and once those get > committed to hive repo, we pull it over in our trunk and drop the > branch. > > Ashutosh > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 13:41, yongqiang he <heyongqiang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am interested in some numbers around the lines of code changes (or >> files of changes) which are in Howl but not in Hive? >> Can anyone give some information here? >> >> Thanks >> Yongqiang >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Hammerbacher <ham...@cloudera.com> >> wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>>> >>>> If we do go ahead with pulling the metastore out of Hive, it might make >>>> most sense for Howl to become its own TLP rather than a subproject. >>> >>> Yes, I did not read the proposal closely enough. I think an end state as a >>> TLP makes more sense for Howl than as a Pig subproject. I'd really love to >>> see Howl replace the metastore in Hive and it would be more natural to do so >>> as a TLP than as a Pig subproject--especially since the current Howl >>> repository is literally a fork of Hive. >>> >>>> >>>> In the incubator proposal, we have mentioned these issues, but we've >>>> attempted to avoid prejudicing any decision. Instead, we'd like to assess >>>> the pros and cons (including effort required and impact expected) for both >>>> approaches as part of the incubation process. >>> >>> Glad the issues are being considered. >>> Later, >>> Jeff >>