Hi, The RC tag method sounds good, any mechanism that gives a heads-up that possibly some incompatible changes have been made would be cool.
Regards, Gerrit On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Bill Graham <billgra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gerrit, > > Sorry to hear these changes caused you problems. The PPNL interface is > marked as Evolving, so it should be expected that future releases of that > interface will change (i.e. break). I'm open for ways to better communicate > these changes when they occur besides the current release notes process. > > thanks, > Bill > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <dvrya...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Gerrit, we do try to keep backwards incompatible changes to a minimum, > > but sometimes they are needed to make progress. How about we make a > > practice of tagging notifications about new pig release candidates with > > [RC] so you can set up your filters and get a heads up to try your > software > > with the latest release candidate? That will at least let you prepare for > > changes before a release is made, or perhaps argue that we should revert > > something that is backwards incompatible. > > > > On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Gerrit Jansen van Vuuren < > gerrit...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm the developer of http://gerritjvv.github.io/glue/ that uses the > Pig > > API > > > directly to launch pig jobs in separate JVM instances. > > > > > > Recently I've updated to use pig-0.11.1 and found two API compatibility > > > breaks. > > > > > > PigServer.parseExecType does not exist anymore, (was a static method up > > to > > > pig-0.10.1) > > > > > > New method for PigProgressNotificationListener > > > > > > public void initialPlanNotification(String scriptId, MROperPlan plan) > > > > > > It would be nice if you guys (when possible) could lookout for these > kind > > > of breaks in the future. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Gerrit > > > > > > -- > *Note that I'm no longer using my Yahoo! email address. Please email me at > billgra...@gmail.com going forward.* >
