I don't believe that patch breaks any compatibility, the change is completely internal to TupleWritable. The version in 18, requires larger changes as CompositeInputReader needs to change also.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Owen O'Malley <owen.omal...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:09 PM, jason hadoop<jason.had...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > It is a bug fix, > > It removes an undocumented limitation. *sigh* > > If I remember right, that patch breaks compatibility. If so, I'd vote > against putting it into any of the release branches. > > -- Owen > -- Pro Hadoop, a book to guide you from beginner to hadoop mastery, http://www.amazon.com/dp/1430219424?tag=jewlerymall www.prohadoopbook.com a community for Hadoop Professionals
