Thanks Chia-Ping Tsai and Sean Busbey for the inputs. Looks like we need to keep both versions.
Regards, Peter On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> wrote: > So long as we're still supporting integration with the Apache Hadoop > MapReduce project including versions that have both the old and new > api, I think we need to support both. > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 7:15 AM, Peter Somogyi <psomo...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Thanks for bringing this up Chia-Ping Tsai. Yes, the question can be more > > general whether we need to support the old API. > > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Chia-Ping Tsai <chia7...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > >> There are other tools having two versions - o.a.h.h.mapreduce and > >> o.a.h.h.mapred > >> It seems to me the question is "should hbase support old MR APIs ?' > Given > >> that hadoop 3.0 doesn't mark old MR APIs deprecated, we should keep > them in > >> hbase? Or we can deprecate them in hbase-2+ in order to remove them in > the > >> future? > >> > >> On 2018/04/10 16:02:07, Peter Somogyi <psomo...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Currently we have 2 RowCounter tools in our > >> > repository: o.a.h.h.mapreduce.RowCounter and > o.a.h.h.mapred.RowCounter. > >> > None of them is marked as deprecated but mapred.RowCounter was > deprecated > >> > in pre-HBase 1 releases and the annotation was eventually removed > >> > in HBASE-11178. > >> > > >> > Do we still want to or need to keep both versions? The mapred tool is > not > >> > documented in refguide and the command's usage is minimal. The > >> > mapreduce.RowCounter tool also has more features. > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Peter > >> > > >> >
