On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Drew Farris <drew.far...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ok, this makes sense to me. I think running on Amazon EMR is a good > goal, not to mention I'm sure there are people out there with > installations running on pre 0.20 hadoop too. As much as I hate to to > see the deprecation warnings all of the time your reasoning behind > sticking with the old apis sounds solid. > > Amazon EMR and people's old installations is why I lean toward "-1" for moving wholly toward 0.20 standardization just yet. I *strongly* prefer the new API myself, and there are also bugs (perf and func) fixed in 0.20, but I would hate to basically cut off support for these hadoop installations until people and Amazon upgrade.
-jake
