On Fri, 7 May 2010 09:24:40 +0200 gabriele renzi <rff....@gmail.com> wrote:
gr> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Nathan McCall <n...@vervewireless.com> wrote: >> FYI - I asked a similar question in #cassandra-dev yesterday (based on >> this message thread actually) and was directed to this issue: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-754 gr> Interesting, but it seems the objection is more on the geneal idea of gr> "multiple APIs are a pain to mantain" than on the idea of having a gr> simple way for plugging external components with a lifecycle. gr> Maybe there is still space for such a minor patch? gr> (Also, though I understand the reasoning "one API should be enough for gr> everyone and two is too much for us" I don't see why such an option gr> should be ruled out for third parties, but I guess other people have gr> already put more thought than me in this) I'm sure if Cassandra maintainers heard from other people besides myself in favor of multiple APIs they would be more likely to listen. I've argued enough on that ticket. FWIW I would again contribute in that direction if there was a chance of acceptance and I am concerned about the operational risks of the Thrift API and with the state of the Avro API. Ted
