We had recently similar incompatibility fight in Sqoop, so I can understand your frustration.
I'm +1 on the proposal. Jarcec On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 01:29:19PM -0600, Brock Noland wrote: > Hi, > > In MRUNIT-31 we used mockito to allow a single branch of code work > with hadoop 1 and hadoop 2. Patrick Hunt has filed a number of tickets > for items which don't work with hadoop 2. I do not see an easy way to > fix MRUNIT-167 and MRUNIT-161 in a single branch since hadoop 1 is > lacking a large number of methods that hadoop 2 supports. > > As such, I think that we should think about the following: > > 1) Create hadoop-1 to support hadoop 1 with trunk supporting hadoop 2. > 2) Resolve MRUNIT-167 and MRUNIT-161 in trunk. > 3) Going forward we will have to backport from trunk to the hadoop-1 > branch. At first this will be simple since they are so similar. Over > time this will become more difficult. Hopefully by the time it's too > difficult to support hadoop-1 most people will have already moved to > hadoop 2. > 4) During releases we'll have to generate artifacts from both branches. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Apache MRUnit - Unit testing MapReduce - http://incubator.apache.org/mrunit/
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