Have we asked them about making a release? On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was trying to test out Dylan's patch this weekend and was met with a > repeated failure of another VFS unit test due to the same race condition > we've been fighting against for years. > > A cursory glance to vfs' website show still shows that they haven't made > the 2.1 release which supposedly fixes this issue. In other words, they > have no made a release since 2011. > > I'm now under the assumption that we cannot rely on them to make a > release. As such, if the community wishes to continue to support this > feature, something needs to happen before 1.8.0 -- fork vfs, use/build some > other library for this functionality, or remove the dynamic-classloader > functionality from Accumulo completely. > > I've tried to be very patient waiting for this to happen, but I'm rather > frustrated having wasted significant time over the past years (not even > exaggerating which is even crazier) working around known broken code that > is unusable by users. > > Thoughts? > > - Josh >
