The only reason I see is that you might be stuck with an older version of Hadoop for some other reason.
Enis On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org>wrote: > Is there a valid reason for using a Hadoop version older than 1.0.3 if > compiling up your own deploy? > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Enis Söztutar <enis....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > While trying with older Hadoop versions, I noticed that we do not compile > > against hadoop versions older than 1.0.3. > > > > I think the programmatic kerberos jaas configuration broke the compat: > > The error is: > > > > [ERROR] > > > > > /Users/enis/projects/hbase/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/ZKUtil.java:[36,53] > > cannot find symbol > > symbol : class KerberosUtil > > location: package org.apache.hadoop.security.authentication.util > > [ERROR] > > > > > /Users/enis/projects/hbase/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/ZKUtil.java:[247,32] > > cannot find symbol > > symbol : variable KerberosUtil > > location: class > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZKUtil.JaasConfiguration > > > > > > Should we fix this, or just document the case, and not work with older > > hadoop versions than 1.0.3 > > > > Enis > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) >
