Thanks for the response. I am fairly to this ecosystem. I am trying to understand the changes required and impact. I will send another update as soon as I have something solid.
Thanks again, Julian Stephen On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Nathan Marz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 < > > [email protected]> 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 >
