Looking at the archive more closely, I understand the confusion now. It seems that the question got sent twice by me. My apologies. Didn't intend to spam the mailbox.
Thanks, Aniket On 24 September 2013 19:18, Aniket Bhatnagar <aniket.bhatna...@gmail.com>wrote: > Agreed that it has been partially discussed in the thread "[jira] > [Updated] (KAFKA-1046) Added support for Scala 2.10 builds while > maintaining compatibility with 2.8.x" with the discussion being that it's > not a good idea to apply the same path to 0.8-beta1-candidate branch. > However, I am more looking for advice on how stable the 0.8 branch is to be > fit for deployment in production. > > > On 24 September 2013 18:55, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This was discussed before - >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-users/201309.mbox/browser >> >> Thanks, >> Neha >> On Sep 23, 2013 11:43 PM, "Aniket Bhatnagar" <aniket.bhatna...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > We are looking to adopt Kafka for our in stream processing use case. >> One of >> > the issue seems to be that we use scala 2.10.2 however the the 0.8 Beta1 >> > release does not seem to support scala 2.10.x. As a result, we are not >> able >> > to use Kafka Scala client. I was wondering if we can use branch 0.8 >> which >> > seems to have the patch KAFKA-1046 incorporated. But I am not sure, if >> > branch 0.8 is considered stable enough for production usage. I tried to >> do >> > a diff of branches 0.8 and -0.8.0-beta1-candidate1 and there seems to >> be a >> > lot of changes between the branches (about 193 different files). Any >> > insight on this would be very helpful. >> > >> > Also, the other option is to build client jar (essentially core jar) >> from >> > 0.8 branch and deploy 0.8 Beta1 release on server. Is that recommended? >> > >> > >