I would like to know what the benefits of upgrading would be. Upgrading a dependency, especially something as core as this, carries with it risk. Once we know the benefits we can weigh that against the risk.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Bobby Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com.invalid> wrote: > We have not really explored going to netty 4.0. I know at some point we > will probably have to switch over to use it, but for the time being most of > the dependencies that we have seen still use netty 3.X, but if you have > code to use netty 4.x and want to contribute I would be happy to review it > and see what we can do to support that. Even if it involves doing some > shading to support it. > - Bobby > > > > On Friday, April 17, 2015 10:48 PM, Julian Stephen < > julian.step...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > I am quite curious to know if there is any interest or activity around > upgrading Storm to use Netty 4.0 or higher. From what I understand, Storm > (at least till the 0.10.0 dev branch I checked out) still depends on Netty > 3.x. and Netty 4.x is not compatible with 3.x code Link > <http://netty.io/wiki/new-and-noteworthy-in-4.0.html>. I could not find > any > related issues in the Apache Storm Jira, and is curious to know if anyone > has explored implications and impact of such a change. > > Regards, > Julian > > > > -- Twitter: @nathanmarz http://nathanmarz.com
