On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Eli Collins <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Tsz Wo Sze <szets...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> @Eli, Removing a feature would simplify the design and code. I think this >> is a generally true statement but not specific to Append. The question is >> whether Append is useless and it should be removed? I think it is clear >> from this email thread that the answer is no. > > @Nicholas, no one is saying append is "useless and should be removed." > The discussion is perhaps a little more subtle than you've understood > it to be. > > If there are a lot of good use cases I'm all for it, I just don't see > downstream projects using it any time soon (which is not to say they > don't want it, just that they can't depend on something not in 1.x), > and I haven't seen much demand. I wanted to hear from others if they > had. When I brought it up with a room of hdfs developers from 3 > different companies no one felt strongly. And so far only a handful of > people have chimed in, I actually thought more would.
Just one comment: If we do decide to keep append in, we should get it to be actually stable and usable. In my opinion, this should definitely happen before adding any new operations. Colin
