I feel like the next time we break network compatibility should be the last time, aka, the release when we introduce a backwards compatible RPC layer (Avro?), and implement support for dropping messages that a node can't handle.
So I think we should probably try to preserve compatibility in 0.7. -----Original Message----- From: "Jonathan Ellis" <jbel...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:49am To: cassandra-...@incubator.apache.org Subject: network compatibility from 0.6 to 0.7 How useful is this to insist on, given that 0.7 thrift api is fairly incompatible with 0.6's? (timestamp -> Clock change being the biggest problem there) -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
