On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:15:16 -0600 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
JE> 2009/12/22 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com>: >> But would you (as Gary IIRC mentioned earlier) prefer the old >> constructors back instead to minimize changes to Cassandra? JE> In a perfect world, Thrift wouldn't go breaking stuff that wasn't JE> causing problems, or if they did they would admit it and roll things JE> back. It's already too late for the first, and I don't give the JE> second good odds either. Right, that's what I saw in the ticket discussion. So we have to live with it. JE> But this is not something to burn a lot of cycles on. If your heart JE> is set on using thrift 0.2, then patch Cassandra so it works. JE> Otherwise just build the new structures with the old thrift compiler, JE> just use the version in the libthrift filename. It's very tempting to just keep hacking against the old Thrift but it doesn't feel right. What's the long-term plan, is Cassandra sticking with Thrift? If yes then it's worth investing the time now since we will have to do it eventually no matter what. Ted
