[HIVE-1962] make a libthrift.jar and libfb303.jar in dist package for backward compatibility

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: Build Infrastructure
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Ning Zhang
• Reporter: Ning Zhang
• Created: 05/Feb/11 00:29
• Updated: 16/Dec/11 23:59
• Resolved: 10/Feb/11 07:57

Description

We have seen an internal user that relies on Hive's distribution library libthrift.jar. After the upgrade of thrift jar to 0.5.0, the jar file is renamed to thrift-0.5.0.jar and similarly for the fb303 jar. We can ask the user to change their dependency to thrift-0.5.0.jar, but later when we upgrade to a new version, the dependency breaks again. It's desirable to create a symlink in the dist/lib directory to link libthrift.jar to thrift-${thrift.version}.jar and the same for fb303.