[SPARK-15424] Revert SPARK-14807 Create a hivecontext-compatibility module

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 19/May/16 23:53
• Updated: 21/May/16 05:01
• Resolved: 21/May/16 05:01

Description

I initially asked to create a hivecontext-compatibility module to put the HiveContext there. But we are so close to Spark 2.0 release and there is only a single class in it. It seems overkill to have an entire package, which makes it more inconvenient, for a single class.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #13207 (rxin)