9.1 just went up for vote, and holding up a release to add 0.22 compatibility seems ill-advised. I would be willing to help get 9.2 out in short order to provide compatibility with 22, and I think Joep already did a bunch of work to make this happen.
D On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:54 PM, <milind.bhandar...@emc.com> wrote: > 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" <dvrya...@gmail.com> 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 <r...@cloudera.com> > >wrote: > > > >> 2011/9/29 <milind.bhandar...@emc.com>: > >> > [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. > >> > >
