On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Josh Wills <[email protected]> wrote: > > I saw Chris' tweet that Avro 1.7.0 was released-- thoughts on > upgrading? Does it buy us any good stuff we want?
The fix of ReflectDatumReader not working correctly with Specific Records (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1046) would allow us to remove a fair bit of Avro code that works around that bug -- if we do do the upgrade, I'd certainly volunteer to weed out those workarounds. On the other hand, I just did a quick scan of the release notes for 1.7.0 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310911&version=12318848) and I didn't notice anything that would really be a big reason to upgrade right away. Are there any reasons *not* to upgrade (other than risks of something else being broken)? Maybe the cleanup of the Avro code that we can do is reason enough to do the upgrade. - Gabriel
