Hi All,
Since we moved to standard distcp version in hadoop-2.5, it has become
impossible to move to any earlier version of hadoop within falcon. To revert
back to a custom distribution isn't all that healthy and we are missing out on
improvements being made there. Though restrictive, it is seemingly difficult to
support hadoop versions earlier than 2.5. @Venkatesh Seetharam has highlighted
the same in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FALCON-824. Unless anyone has
any reservations, we should unblock FALCON-824 and release of 0.6 with known
limitation that it will only support 2.5 and above.
Going forward, we have to act with utmost care when it comes to version bumps
of any dependent components and undertake them only after weighing in the
effects.
Regards
Srikanth Sundarrajan
