Is there really much harm in deprecating the incorrect spelling and providing a correct spelling equivalent?
--Chris On Dec 26, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi Niels, > > Unfortunately this is part of a public facing API, so it's a bit tough to > change without breaking a bunch of dependent code. So, I think despite the > annoying spelling mistake, it's not worth the pain to fix because of the API > breakage :( > > If you find other spelling mistakes that are parts of internal APIs, feel > free to file JIRAs and patches to fix! > > -Todd > > On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Niels Basjes <ni...@basjes.nl> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I noticed that the isSplitable method (and a bunch of other places in >> the Hadoop codebase) writes "splitable" where I would have expected >> "splittable" (two 't' instead of one). >> All spelling functionality I have indicates the 'double t' version is >> correct. >> >> Should I correct this in the junit test files I'm touching? >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> >> Niels Basjes >> > > > > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera
