This code has been broken for a long time and, while it's still in use in some companies, they've had a long time to offer fixes.
+1 on abandoning it. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Eli Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jul 20, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Eli Collins wrote: >>> >>> I don't think we should remove HDFSProxy because Hoop exists, I think >>> we should remove it because it's broken and not being maintained. >>> Broken and un-maintained code should be removed no? >> >> That'd remove large chunks of hadoop. >> > > We've made good progress removing broken / unmaintained code from > Hadoop. Common no longer contains any contrib projects. And HDFS is > down to two (hdfs proxy and fuse-dfs, and the latter is actually > maintained, by myself and others). > > Thanks, > Eli >
