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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-1488:
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What is the advantage of back-porting instead of contributing a jar that
can be dropped into the lib/ext directory?
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I see none, and this would be my preferred method of supporting these in an
older version, since they are completely modular and can be delivered in this
way.
At the *very* least, I think backporting a feature from a newer version when
that newer version isn't even yet released (and therefore finalized in some
way) creates an undue burden on *all* developers who could receive questions
from users. If some users start having problems with this feature in 1.5.1 and
later, or design code around it assuming it's available in 1.5.x, but have to
migrate to 1.5.0 (due to a bug in 1.5.1, for instance), it will *not* be
sufficient for me to tell them "[~afuchs] volunteered to take responsibility
for that".
Personally, I would like to see backported features (just features, not
bugfixes) voted on for inclusion in a prior release line, precisely because of
the additional support and maintenance risks.
> support BigDecimal encoding for basic built-in combiners
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> Key: ACCUMULO-1488
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1488
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Adam Fuchs
> Fix For: 1.5.1, 1.6.0
>
> Attachments: ACCUMULO-1488.patch
>
>
> Support sum, min, and max operations for decimal numbers using the
> java.math.BigDecimal String encoding and decoding functions
> (BigDecimal.toString() and BigDecimal(String)).
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