Document incompatible API changes between releases
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Key: BIGTOP-117
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-117
Project: Bigtop
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Tom White
It would be good to run API compatibility tests to document the difference in
user APIs between releases.
SigTest (http://sigtest.java.net/) is a promising candidate, and is used by
OpenJDK and NetBeans to check for incompatible changes. It is very
comprehensive and can check binary and source compatibility.
I've written some scripts that allow two Hadoop tarballs to be compared for
incompatible API changes. The scripts are at
https://github.com/tomwhite/hadoop-compatibility-tools. The scripts can be
easily generalized to check different Bigtop projects.
See also HADOOP-7035
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