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Haohui Mai commented on HDFS-9047:
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The fact that the code does not build out-of-the-box for several consecutive
releases is worrisome and more importantly, really shameful -- any single
release should not contain something does not build. And as a community fail to
figure it out for a year.
+1 on removing it on both branch-2 and trunk.
> deprecate libwebhdfs in branch-2; remove from trunk
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> Key: HDFS-9047
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9047
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: webhdfs
> Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
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> This library is basically a mess:
> * It's not part of the mvn package
> * It's missing functionality and barely maintained
> * It's not in the precommit runs so doesn't get exercised regularly
> * It's not part of the unit tests (at least, that I can see)
> * It isn't documented in any official documentation
> But most importantly:
> * It fails at it's primary mission of being pure C (HDFS-3917 is STILL open)
> Let's cut our losses and just remove it.
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