[moving to core-dev@] A big release note is doable.
Still, people normally use 'hadoop' script when submitting jobs and 'hadoop' would take care of having the JAR in the classpath. What other things would break? I'll start working on a patch then. Thxs. Alejandro On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur wrote: > > > What is the rationale for having the hadoop JARs outside of the lib/ > > directory? > > > > It would definitely simplify packaging configuration if they are under > lib/ > > as well. > > > > Any objection to it? > > > It needs a big release note as this will break users in bad bad > ways. > >
