I'd say let's take a look at how bad are the problems; what are discrepancies?
Do you have any build links or some such to point to? Cos On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 05:34PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Konstantin Shvachko > <[email protected]> wrote: > > == TESTING == > > 5. I think Steve's idea of integrating 0.22 with Apache BigTop is > > great. Will be glad to see any steps in this direction. > > The basic integration is done. We can produce fully functional RPM > and DEB packages for Hadoop 0.22 release. > > This is good news. The bad news is that very few downstream components > can be compiled against .22. And I'm not talking changes to versions, pom.xml > and build.xml files. I'm talking API incompatibilities. Pig, Hive, HBase, > Mahout > all need to be modified to support .22. Before that's done -- there's > little that > can be done as far as stack validation is concerned. > > Given that work needs to be done in downstream components, I've got 2 > questions: > 1. do we know if the API delta between .22 and .23 is as > significant as betwen > .22 and .20.2? > > 2. what's the common approach downstream to support multiple versions of > Hadoop APIs? Or is this even something that can be asked of all the > components? > > Thanks, > Roman.
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