No, Stack was talking about Hadoop's API freeze. The main reason why HBase has been hitched to Hadoop's versioning thus far is that each Hadoop version's API is incompatible with the previous in some significant way (to HBase). It would be great to move beyond that.
- Andy ________________________________ From: Bruce Williams <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 3:10:51 PM Subject: Re: HBase 0.22 -> HBase 1.0 Are you saying we should consider freezing the API also? Bruce On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:54 AM, stack <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not know any reason for not trying to do like hadoop. After hadoop > 1.0, presuming the API stays constant, we might be able to unhitch ourselves > from hadoop's versioning. > St.Ack > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It looks like Hadoop is planning to bump to 1.0 after 0.22, and are >> considering an API freeze at 0.21. >> >> - Andy >> >> >> >> > -- “Discovering...discovering...we will never cease discovering... and the end of all our discovering will be to return to the place where we began and to know it for the first time.” -T.S. Eliot
