On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote: > -0.23 is a superset of the MR and HDFS APIs compatible with previous > versions (I don't know or care whether or not it is a proper superset or > not). The goal here is that end user apps and higher levels in the stack > (in-ASF and out-ASF) should work, though testing is required to verify this.
I believe that by now we have enough factual evidence that at least framework-level APIs are incompatible. That's exactly why every single downstream component needs to be patched at the level of code to work against 0.23. Thanks, Roman.
