Using counters in OutputFormat

[Clément MATHIEU]

Hi,

While writing a Target based on FileTargetImpl and a custom OutputFormat 
I discovered that Crunch seems to prevent OutputFormats from using 
counters (CrunchOutputs#getTaskContext instanciates 
TaskAttemptContextImpl with its two args ctor which means that reporter 
is a black hole).

Is there any technical reason to a such limitation ? Wouldn't it be 
possible to pass baseContext's reporter as third argument ?

Thanks,

Clement