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Tom White commented on HADOOP-6733: ----------------------------------- I totally agree, but we need to start somewhere. My hope is to have some basic sanity checks for compatibility which we can release 0.21 with. Over time I would hope that the API tests are built out to cover more of the codebase. > Create a test for FileSystem API compatibility between releases > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6733 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6733 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: fs > Reporter: Tom White > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.21.0 > > > We should have an automated test for checking that programs written against > an old version of the FileSystem API still run with a newer version. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.