Dmitry, So, your suggestion would be to try and get 0.9.1 compatible with Hadoop 0.22 ? Would there be an interest from pig committers to see that through, as a 0.9.2 perhaps ?
- Milind --- Milind Bhandarkar Greenplum Labs, EMC (Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this email are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views of any organization, past or present, the author might be affiliated with.) On 9/29/11 4:30 PM, "Dmitriy Ryaboy" <[email protected]> wrote: >Pig 8.2 is likely not going to happen (0 interest from any of the >committers). > >0.9 has already been released, 9.1 is in the works, as is 10. > >Not sure how Milind compiled that list of features in 0.9 but it's kind of >an odd grab-bag of 0.8 and 0.9 features. > >The MASSIVE improvement 0.9 introduced is macros. There are other things; >one unheralded in the 3 blog posts below is that handling of nested >structures is cleaned up a lot (in a subtly non-backwards-compatible way). > >http://www.hortonworks.com/new-apache-pig-features-part-1-macro/ >http://www.hortonworks.com/new-apache-pig-features-part-2-embedding/ >(note: >not udfs in other languages, that was already in 8). >http://www.hortonworks.com/new-apache-pig-0-9-features-part-3-additional-f >eatures/ > > >On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> 2011/9/29 <[email protected]>: >> > [CC'ng Pig-dev]. >> > >> > In terms of interest, what is the community more interested in seeing >> work >> > with Hadoop 0.22 ? Pig 0.8.x or Pig.0.9. >> > >> > >> > I took a look at pig 0.9 added features: >> > >> > New parser (still has corner cases) >> > UDFs in languages other than Java >> > Macros >> > Hcatalog support >> > >> > As far as existing installations are concerned, my belief is that >>these >> > features do not make a very compelling case for pig 0.9 to be >>compatible >> > immediately with Hadoop 0.22, and pig 0.8.x makes more sense. >> > >> > What do people think ? >> >> Personally, I'd like to see both of these code lines to have a >> compatibility >> releases to address 0.22/0.23 issues. Also, I'd be totally happy with >> 0.9 NOT addressing this issues if there's 0.10 planned soon enough. >> >> As for 0.8 I really, really, really would like to see a compatibility >> release. >> From the Bigtop side, I can help with build and testing, but I guess we >> need somebody from the Pig community to chime in on how feasible >> 0.8.2 will be. >> >> Thanks, >> Roman. >>
