Mahout actually should work with hadoop-2 stable without recompiling, not with hadoop-2 alpha though.
We're, by the way, currently in the process of adding support to build mahout with hadoop-2. Please see mahout-1354 for the relevant issue Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 9, 2013, at 19:54, Hi There <srudamas...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Is Dec 2013 still the intended release date of the next mahout release that > will be compatible with Hadoop 2.2.0? > > > > > On Thursday, November 21, 2013 12:36 PM, Suneel Marthi > <suneel_mar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Targeted for Dec 2013. > > > > > > > On Thursday, November 21, 2013 3:26 PM, Hi There <srudamas...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > Thanks for the reply! Is there a timeline for then the next release will be? > > > Thanks, > Victor > > > > > On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 7:30 PM, Suneel Marthi > <suneel_mar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi Victor, > > Future releases of Mahout will support Hadoop 2.x, the present codebase still > only supports Hadoop 1.x. > > > > > > > On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:42 PM, Hi There <srudamas...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I recently upgraded to hadoop's > newest release, and it seems one of their interfaces has changed, and > when I try to create sparse vectors from sequence files, I get the > following exception: > > java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Found interface > org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Counter, but class was expected > > I can include more of the stack trace if necessary. > > Are there any plans in the immediate future to upgrade mahout to be > compatible with the newest hadoop release? > > Thanks, > Victor
