On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:05, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > The situation today is that network compatibility in trunk has been > broken without us noticing for a while now -- in CASSANDRA-956 > (according to git annotate) we changed ColumnFamily serialization in a > non-backwards-compatible way. >
956 was all about streaming, not CF serialization. Still, it breaks network compatibility with respect to streaming. The IClock changes were more likely to have broken CF serialization. > Given the difficulty on the client side of mixing 0.6 and 0.7, most > sites are going to end up doing a Big Bang upgrade anyway. So is it > really worth a lot of effort on the network protocol side? > My opinion: no. But I don't have to upgrade a huge cluster. Gary.
