Talking yesterday at the workshop with the other committers and users it seams obvious that we should really get rid of the munge headache ASAP. I wish I had a solution though, probably branching looks the best right now.
On Thursday, June 7, 2012, Avery Ching wrote: > Regarding the netty secureness, we can of course add this to netty (i.e. > ssl is built in to netty). > > Avery > > On 5/31/12 10:53 AM, Jakob Homan wrote: > >> While I see no problem in replacing the Hadoop RPC with the Netty >>> implementation >>> Avery contributed, I am not 100% sure about the implications in relation >>> to >>> secure vs. non-secure versions of Hadoop. >>> >> Those running netty in a secure cluster need to know we're totally >> secure. Agreed that we need a better story in this situation. >> >> >> If changes to support different versions of Hadoop cannot be factored >>> out, >>> another option (IMHO better than the current situation) would be to >>> maintain two >>> or three small patches that people who want to use Giraph with a >>> different >>> version of Hadoop can eventually apply. >>> >> Munging needs to go, the sooner the better; shimming may be in the >> future, although that's not ideal either. One option would be to not >> support older versions aggressively, particularly with cross-version >> rpc compatibility coming soon. But I'd like to avoid a roll-your-own >> approach; we need to officially support and have versions for >> different Hadoops. >> >> -jg >> > > -- Claudio Martella claudio.marte...@gmail.com
