Yeah, me either... but it does raise the question: if we can't provide proper Kerberos support (ITs don't even pass, IIRC) using a dependency older than 2.6.1, how much can we really say 1.7.2 works on those older versions?
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:50 PM Mike Drob <md...@mdrob.com> wrote: > I would not feel comfortable bumping the min req Hadoop in 1.7.2 > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 6:39 PM Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Perhaps. But the tests pass with 2.6.1, I think. Shouldn't be that much > > different in terms of support, so I figured go with the minimum we can > test > > with. FWIW, this affects 1.7.2 also, but i figured a bump there would be > > more controversial. > > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016, 19:22 Josh Elser <josh.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > For that reasoning, wouldn't bumping to 2.6.4 be better (as long as > > > Hadoop didn't do anything screwy that they shouldn't have in a > > > maintenance release...) > > > > > > I have not looked at deltas between 2.6.1 and 2.6.4 > > > > > > Christopher wrote: > > > > I was looking at the recently bumped tickets and noticed > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4150 > > > > > > > > It seems to me that we may want to make our minimum supported Hadoop > > > > version 2.6.1, at least for the 1.8.0 release. > > > > > > > > That's not to say it won't work with other versions... just that it's > > not > > > > something we're testing for in the latest release, and isn't > > recommended > > > > (and possibly, a downstream packager may need to patch Accumulo to > > > support > > > > the older version). > > > > > > > > > >