Github user revans2 commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/577#issuecomment-108991541
@ptgoetz my problem with that is the distribution mechanism is different
for external from what it is for storm proper. Say I create a topology jar
with storm-hdfs in it. At some point in the future storm upgrades the version
of snake.yaml and it is a non-backwards compatible change. Now my topology
will not run on a newer version of storm.
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