If you want to go down that route, you should also ask somebody who has had experience managing a large organization's applications and try to update Scala version.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Marcelo Vanzin <van...@cloudera.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > > Actually it's *way* harder to upgrade Scala from 2.10 to 2.11, than > > upgrading the JVM runtime from 7 to 8, because Scala 2.10 and 2.11 are > not > > binary compatible, whereas JVM 7 and 8 are binary compatible except > certain > > esoteric cases. > > True, but ask anyone who manages a large cluster how long it would > take them to upgrade the jdk across their cluster and validate all > their applications and everything... binary compatibility is a tiny > drop in that bucket. > > -- > Marcelo >
