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Sanjay Radia commented on HDFS-6200: ------------------------------------ +++1 for this proposal. > Create a separate jar for hdfs-client > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-6200 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6200 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Haohui Mai > Assignee: Haohui Mai > Attachments: HDFS-6200.000.patch, HDFS-6200.001.patch, > HDFS-6200.002.patch, HDFS-6200.003.patch, HDFS-6200.004.patch, > HDFS-6200.005.patch, HDFS-6200.006.patch, HDFS-6200.007.patch > > > Currently the hadoop-hdfs jar contain both the hdfs server and the hdfs > client. As discussed in the hdfs-dev mailing list > (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-hdfs-dev/201404.mbox/browser), > downstream projects are forced to bring in additional dependency in order to > access hdfs. The additional dependency sometimes can be difficult to manage > for projects like Apache Falcon and Apache Oozie. > This jira proposes to create a new project, hadoop-hdfs-cliient, which > contains the client side of the hdfs code. Downstream projects can use this > jar instead of the hadoop-hdfs to avoid unnecessary dependency. > Note that it does not break the compatibility of downstream projects. This is > because old downstream projects implicitly depend on hadoop-hdfs-client > through the hadoop-hdfs jar. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)