On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > Actually it's *way* harder to upgrade Scala from 2.10 to 2.11, than > upgrading the JVM runtime from 7 to 8, because Scala 2.10 and 2.11 are not > binary compatible, whereas JVM 7 and 8 are binary compatible except certain > esoteric cases.
True, but ask anyone who manages a large cluster how long it would take them to upgrade the jdk across their cluster and validate all their applications and everything... binary compatibility is a tiny drop in that bucket. -- Marcelo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org
