Re: documentation on dealing with legacy Hadoop versions

2014-01-17 Thread Steve Loughran
the Hadoop policy here is "no guarantees": http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/Compatibility.html that said, nobody rushes to update things, especially on the 2.x branch -protobuf was traumatic enough that google guava is on hold, leading to BOOKEEPER 708 Apart

Re: documentation on dealing with legacy Hadoop versions

2014-01-03 Thread Christopher
We've talked before about keeping the README pretty minimal. I think we should put more focus on documenting Accumulo on the website and the user manual (which should be hosted on the website). As for the specific issue of missing dependent jars... we need better startup scripts: an ACCUMULO_BOOTS

Re: documentation on dealing with legacy Hadoop versions

2014-01-03 Thread Sean Busbey
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Josh Elser wrote: > > Point of reference: HBase-0.96.0 will pull *all* dependencies into > $HBASE_HOME/lib. Now, while I don't think I want to re-package all of the > Hadoop jars and its dependencies, I don't think it's unreasonable to > repackage ones that may be

Re: documentation on dealing with legacy Hadoop versions

2014-01-03 Thread Josh Elser
On 1/3/14, 11:17 AM, Sean Busbey wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Josh Elser wrote: 2) Should we document commons-configuration similar to commons-io? The README already has a section about how some older versions of Hadoop don't have commons-io. I think the versions given need

Re: documentation on dealing with legacy Hadoop versions

2014-01-03 Thread Sean Busbey
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Josh Elser wrote: > > > 2) Should we document commons-configuration similar to commons-io? >> >> The README already has a section about how some older versions of Hadoop >> don't have commons-io. I think the versions given need to be tightened up >> given (1) abo

Re: documentation on dealing with legacy Hadoop versions

2014-01-03 Thread Josh Elser
On 1/3/14, 10:55 AM, Sean Busbey wrote: Heya! Earlier this week we had a user in IRC that was having difficulty running 1.5.0 because their classpath didn't include commons-configuration. In one case, they just needed to fix their accumulo-site to include hadoop 2 paths. In the other, they we

documentation on dealing with legacy Hadoop versions

2014-01-03 Thread Sean Busbey
Heya! Earlier this week we had a user in IRC that was having difficulty running 1.5.0 because their classpath didn't include commons-configuration. In one case, they just needed to fix their accumulo-site to include hadoop 2 paths. In the other, they were using Apache Hadoop 0.20.2, which has no