On Feb 29, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Arun C Murthy wrote: > 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...
Uh, hit 'send' too soon... Never mind - I was looking at the wrong project in ASF jira (HADOOP and not MAPREDUCE). Sqoop was removed via https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1644 Turns out we never released Sqoop via Apache Hadoop - so my question is moot. Sorry for the noise. Arun
