Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/507#issuecomment-41330331
@srowen if we force thrift 0.8 in maven, is it possible that users
compiling against older hadoop versions will get errors because the hadoop code
(or some other transitive dependnecy) expects thrift 0.7? I'm not sure whether
0.7 and 0.8 are binary compatible.
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