Arvind, (Sorry, I missed this discussion.)
On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: > Please see [1] for details on why the code is like this. The short > summary is that binary compatibility requires us to respect all > extension points within the code. > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP/Namespace+Migration This might be prior to your involvement with Sqoop, but it was initially part of Apache Hadoop MapReduce as a contrib module prior to being moved out to github. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5815 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/branches/branch-0.21-old/mapreduce/src/contrib/sqoop/ Thus, does the Sqoop community also plan to maintain back-compat with org.apache.hadoop.sqoop namespace for older users too? I can't seem to place whether we ever made Apache Hadoop releases which included Sqoop before it got moved out... Arun
