[moving to core-dev@, general@ BCCed] Eric,
Even if the JAR is in lib/ you could import/use that JAR only. How would you use Hadoop JARs without its dependencies? Many things will break unless you add the dependency JARs. Granted, there are JARs that are used by Hadoop server side only (JT/NN/TT/DN/SNN), but that is a different thing. Having a client side set of JARs would help handle this (MAPREDUCE-1638). Thoughts? Thanks. Alejandro On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Eric Yang <eric...@gmail.com> wrote: > The jar files placement outside of lib directory is to ensure the project > generated jar files are not mixed with it's dependencies. > Hence, if another project tries to import current project's jar files > without dependencies, it is possible to do so. > > regards, > Eric > > On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur wrote: > > > What is the rationale for having the hadoop JARs outside of the lib/ > > directory? > > > > It would definitely simplify packaging configuration if they are under > lib/ > > as well. > > > > Any objection to it? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Alejandro > >
