Absolutely makes sense! it will make a lot of things easier, really. The infamous need for classifiers will finally go away!
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:56AM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > Hadoop 1.0 is an ancient, and I believe dead, version that certainly nobody > should use today. We have a chronic problem on the 0.98 branch with changes > tested on only Hadoop 2 later are found to break builds against Hadoop 1, > since only 0.94 and 0.98 still support Hadoop 1.x. See > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12397 as an example. This issue > also illustrates that dropping support for 1.0 while retaining support for > 1.1 and later versions of Hadoop 1.x can reduce cross-version compatibility > complexity for at least the API involved in that issue, and certainly > others. This in my opinion is a good thing. > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White)
