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Doug Cutting commented on MAPREDUCE-1938: ----------------------------------------- > Did i understand your concern right? I don't have specific concerns about this patch. Sorry for any confusion in that regard. I thought it worthwhile to discuss how this change relates to other changes that are contemplated. It seems not inconsistent, provides some of the benefits, and is considerably simpler; in short, a good thing. > Ability for having user's classes take precedence over the system classes for > tasks' classpath > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-1938 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1938 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: job submission, task, tasktracker > Reporter: Devaraj Das > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: mr-1938-bp20.1.patch, mr-1938-bp20.patch > > > It would be nice to have the ability in MapReduce to allow users to specify > for their jobs alternate implementations of classes that are already defined > in the MapReduce libraries. For example, an alternate implementation for > CombineFileInputFormat. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.