That is the best argument I heard so far. I'll commit the patch today. Thanks.
-- Lars Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> schrieb: >On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:24 PM, lars hofhansl <[email protected]> wrote: >> So will Guava 11.0.2 in hbase 0.94 be a problem? Should we not update Guava >> (at least not until 0.96)? > >In general, I don't think there's good answer to how dependencies >are supposed to be managed wrt. version numbers. After all, all >of the Hadoop ecosystem projects have to deal with the fact that >there's at least half a dozen different branches of Hadoop they have >to work with. It is virtually guaranteed that whatever you do you will >end up incompatible with one of those builds and most likely the >version of a dependency that wins will be the one that Hadoop is using. > >IOW, whatever is specified in the POM file of individual projects is >likely to be overridden anyway and the best the could be done >is to avoid known gaping incompatibility holes (of which I'm not >aware of too many). > >Thanks, >Roman.
