Hi Shannon,
Another question on this thread, are you asking everyone to switch to this 
version for running all of Mahout, if so wouldn't this entail first re-running 
a unit tests on this beta version and certify that there are no issues.  Let us 
know more details.

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On Aug 16, 2010, at 6:49 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Shannon,
> 
> would we still be able to run on Amazon Elastic MapReduce if we used
> that beta-version of Hadoop?
> 
> --sebastian
> 
> Am 16.08.2010 15:43, schrieb Shannon Quinn:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> During our GSoC meeting this morning, Isabel and I were discussing a data
>> type flaw in my algorithm and its possible solutions: one involves rewriting
>> the data types manually and likely adding another M/R task, and the other
>> involves making use of a very recent Hadoop API commit (specifically, the
>> mapreduce.lib.join.* library, committed only two months ago and not
>> available in version 0.20.2).
>> 
>> Isabel mentioned that others may find the API available in the latest Hadoop
>> commit to be useful to their code; however, since there hasn't been an
>> official release after 0.20.2, it would require a bit more finesse to
>> integrate the new API. Hence I pose this question to the list: does anyone
>> else need or want to use what is effectively the beta version of Hadoop? If
>> so, I will make use of it as well (which would greatly simplify and reduce
>> the amount of code I have to rewrite); if not, I will write an intermediate
>> task that does all the processing I need.
>> 
>> Thanks for your input!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Shannon
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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