> On Nov 11, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Haohui Mai <ricet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> bq. it basically makes the assumption that everyone recompiles for
> every minor release.
>
> I don't think that the statement holds. HDFS-6200 keeps classes in the
> same package. hdfs-client becomes a transitive dependency of the
> original hdfs jar.
>
> Applications continue to work without recompilation as the classes
> will be in the same name and will be available in the class path.
If and only if they take the Hadoop class path at face value. Many
applications don’t because of conflicting dependencies and instead import
specific jars.
