Ryan Blue

I think deleting the version hint and renaming a new one in its place is a good idea. I don't think that there is an atomic operation that could do...

@WilliamWhispell, that file should be entirely optional, which is why it isn't in the spec. It is merely a pointer to help avoid lots of work finding the current version.

@jackye1995, thanks for taking the time to write up your thoughts. That doc is really helpful. I had previously been thinking about this mostly in terms of an append stream...

I think that I agree with the metadata table approach. Because Presto can run tasks and planning at the same time, this is less of an issue. And the work...

@jameskoch, feel free to ping me to review.

@alexarchambault, I tagged 0.4.0 with your latest changes even though this isn't already done. At least you can use them in the mean time.

> Then about publishing jvm-repr, as discussed with @jameskoch, adding sbt support, then [sbt-ci-release](https://github.com/olafurpg/sbt-ci-release), to this repository, would allow to easily publish things from Travis CI. I can handle adding...

What is the motivation to publish from Travis? Why not register keys for maintainers and publish just releases?

I don't see value in publishing from a CI tool. I think we should release versions to common repos without complicating this by mixing it with CI. That way we...

JVM repr is (currently) unrelated to display updates. That's like asking how to use `_repr_html_` to call `update_display` in python. This project seems like a reasonable place for an API...