The problem is caused by multiple major dependencies and different release cycles. Spark Geode Connector depends on two products: Spark and Geode (not counting other dependencies), and Spark moves much faster than Geode, and some features/code are not backward compatible.
Our initial connector implementation depends on Spark 1.2 in before the last week of March 15. Then Spark 1.3 was released on the last week of March, and some connector feature doesn't work with Spark 1.3, then we moved on, and now support Spark 1.3 (but not 1.2 any more, we did create tag). Two weeks ago, Spark 1.4 was released, and it breaks our connector code again. Therefore, for each Geode release, we probably need multiple Connector releases, and probably need to maintain last 2 or 3 Connector releases, for example, we need to support both Spark 1.3 and 1.4 with the current Geode code. The question is how to support this with single source repository? Thanks, Qihong
