The patch adds a set of scripts for converting the impala-shell
into a true distributable python package. The package can be
installed using familiar python commands, e.g.:
$ python setup.py (install|develop)
or
$ pip install -e /path/to/dist/dir
The entry point script, make_python_package.sh, will run as a
part of the standard sequence of steps that results from calling
buildall.sh, and will produce a gzipped tarball inside of
Impala/shell/dist as an artifact. Thereafter, make_python_package.sh
can be run manually any time.
The expectation is that an official maintainer would need to manually
upload official releases to the Python Package Index as appropriate.
Change-Id: Ib8c745bddddf6a16f0c039430152745a2f00e044
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/14181
Reviewed-by: David Knupp <dknupp@cloudera.com>
Tested-by: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenkins@cloudera.com>
