Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-flink/pull/252#issuecomment-65959720
This change adds hadoop as a hard dependency to the `flink-java` project.
Per the discussion on the mailing list, concerning support for Hadoop
Writables, we voted to not do that and instead add an "mimick interface" to the
Java API.
For a big change like reversing that, it would be good to have some
reasons...
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