Allen, I agree 100% with you, there will be setups that will break. I was just pointing out that it may be a bit less that expected because of the scenarios I described. But yes, you are right, something/somewhere will break.
And being more clear than before, yes, it MUST GO in the release notes. Thanks. Alejandro On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Alejandro Abdelnur wrote: > > Pig, Hive bundle Hadoop JARs with distributions, so no issue there. > > Re-read what I said: > > >> I suspect lots of pig, hive, and hbase installations will also > break. > > It still remains a potential issue for those of us who build our > own and don't like to have multiple copies of the same jar floating around. > > > And finally, with the new layout of Hadoop trunk, things will be broken > > anyhow for them, so work will have to be done there. > > That may be, but it is still important to point this change out. > Otherwise all the release notes would just be "some stuff changed! have fun > finding it all!" > > No release note == -1 from me. > > >
