On Mon Drew Farris <[email protected]> wrote: > If I remember correctly there was some discussion at the beginning on > April where it was proposed that the 'classic' apis in 0.20 would be > undeprecated in the next release and that these would effectively > become the 1.0 apis, with the new apis becoming the 2.0 apis, but > I've lost track of the thread. I'm not aware as to whether a final > decision was ever reached.
Is that the thread you mean? http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01833.html https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1735 To me this looks like the intention is to keep the old API around for as long as the new one is still unstable. On the long term the new one is going to be supported only. Isabel
