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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HDFS-9047:
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I was on vacation so I couldn't comment earlier. Anyway, since
{{hadoop-hdfs-native-client}} got merged, I agree that {{libwebhdfs}} is no
longer strictly necessary and I withdraw my -1. Thanks, all.
> Retire libwebhdfs
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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
> Assignee: Haohui Mai
> Fix For: 2.8.0
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> Attachments: HDFS-9047-branch-2.7.patch, HDFS-9047.000.patch
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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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