W00t :) On Thursday, December 12, 2013, Patrick Wendell wrote:
> Hi Developers, > > In the next few days we are planning to merge Scala 2.10 support into > Spark. For those that haven't been following this, Prashant Sharma has been > maintaining the scala-2.10 branch of Spark for several months. This branch > is current with master and has been reviewed for merging: > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/tree/scala-2.10 > > Scala 2.10 support is one of the most requested features for Spark - it > will be great to get this into Spark 0.9! Please note that *Scala 2.10 is > not binary compatible with Scala 2.9*. With that in mind, I wanted to give > a few heads-up/requests to developers: > > If you are developing applications on top of Spark’s master branch, those > will need to migrate to Scala 2.10. You may want to download and test the > current scala-2.10 branch in order to make sure you will be okay as Spark > developments move forward. Of course, you can always stick with the current > master commit and be fine (I’ll cut a tag when we do the merge in order to > delineate where the version changes). Please open new threads on the dev > list to report and discuss any issues. > > This merge will temporarily drop support for YARN 2.2 on the master branch. > This is because the workaround we used was only compiled for Scala 2.9. We > are going to come up with a more robust solution to YARN 2.2 support before > releasing 0.9. > > Going forward, we will continue to make maintenance releases on branch-0.8 > which will remain compatible with Scala 2.9. > > For those interested, the primary code changes in this merge are upgrading > the akka version, changing the use of Scala 2.9’s ClassManifest construct > to Scala 2.10’s ClassTag, and updating the spark shell to work with Scala > 2.10's repl. > > - Patrick >
