Github user ScrapCodes commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/20#issuecomment-38275013
>./spark-class org.apache.spark.tools.GenerateMIMAIgnore and then run the
MIMA checker. The generation script should create a file in a well known
location (e.g. .mima-excludes) and the MIMA script should read that file and
create excludes automatically.
I am not very sure, but won't this automatic creation of excludes forfeit
the purpose of having mima at all. What would happen if a class was public in
version 1 and become private[x] in 1.2. Then we would simply ignore it but it
is a violating of binary compatibility.
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