Joydeep Sen Sarma wrote:
i find the confusion over what backwards compatibility means scary - and i am
really hoping that the outcome of this thread is a clear definition from the
committers/hadoop-board of what to reasonably expect (or not!) going forward.
The goal is clear: code that compil
Arun - if you can't pull the api - then u must redirect the api to the new call
that preserves it's semantics.
in this case - had we re-implemented SequenceFile.setCompressionType in 0.15 to
call SequenceFileOutputFormat.setOutputCompressionType() - then it would have
been a backwards compatibl
