+1 on going back to old behavior, i.e. returning values, in branch-1 and 2.0 release.
bq. Open question: should we also revert this change in branch-1.4, even though it means the shell will behave very differently between maintenance releases? Earlier, i was inclining towards reverting the behavior in next 1.4.x too, but not so much now. Probably a sooner 1.5 is better idea? On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:50 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks! > > Wanted to bring your attention to HBASE-20276 "[shell] confirm shell > REPL change and document". > > tl;dr: there's a change currently in 1.4.{0..3} and 2.0.0-* that makes > us not return values from any shell commands. current consensus is > that this fundamentally breaks the shell and we should revert it. At > least one person (me) believes that we should not treat releases with > this behavior as our stable / recommend release line. > > Patch shortly going in for branch-1 and newer that reverts the behavior. > > Open question: should we also revert this change in branch-1.4, even > though it means the shell will behave very differently between > maintenance releases? > -- -- Appy
