On 23 April 2013 11:32, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > At the risk of hijacking this conversation a bit, what do you think of the > notion of moving interfaces like Seekable and PositionedReadable into a new > foundational Maven module, perhaps just for such interfaces that define and > tag support for core semantics, as their details are better defined and > documented? I was involved in a discussion today considering factoring out > the codecs so other ecosystem projects might pull in only codec code. > Similar to how hadoop-auth is slender and has a useful servlet filter > implementing SPEGNO authentication, and so it is pulled into various > places, and can even be used with Hadoop 1. The only thing preventing a > clean separation of codecs like this is imports of Seekable and > PositionedReadable. But these define behavior, they don't implement it. > > I'd be against any more (mandatory) JAR files. Life is complicated enough, and I would worry about version conflict with a hadoop-fs-api file and any hadoop-1.x releases (the RemoteIterator stuff is new).
Other people may have other opinions; I can see how it'd make codecs more portable, and reduce dependencies to their minimum. -steve
