Big +1 We've hit this similar problem at least 3 times this year along. On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:14 PM Siyao Meng <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > Recently our (Cloudera) internal API checker detects an API compat issue > when backporting a Hadoop commit (HDFS-14564). Though later it turns out it > isn't an issue (HDFS-14564 adds a new method in an interface, but that > interface isn't in any releases yet, so it's safe to do so), *it would be > great to have this checker in Yetus*. > > Previously, we've also caught another API compatibility issue with our > internal checker, which is later solved in HDFS-14595 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-14595>. If we could have this > API checker in Yetus, such problem could be caught and solved much earlier > IMO. > > This is why I commented in YETUS-445 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YETUS-445>. Would there be a > problem if we use GPL binaries in Yetus? If we are only using the binaries, > not including the source code, it should be fine? What am I missing here, > any suggestions? > > > Thanks! > Siyao Meng >
