+1 to flag as deprecated, but I would wait a bit before simply removing it.
Regards JB On 02/03/2018 01:12 AM, Raghu Angadi wrote: > Is anyone using Apache Beam with Kafka 0.9.x and older? > > I am thinking of deprecating 0.9.x and 0.10.0 in Beam 2.4 and remove support > in > 2.5 or later. 0.10.1 and up will be supported. 0.10.1+ includes much better > timestamp support. > > By deprecation I mean KafkaIO would continue to work with an older version at > runtime, but would not build with it (e.g. `mvn -Dkafka.clients.version=0.9.1` > fails). We can print a deprecation warning at runtime. > > [1]: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/23c69d62a0cabf06c4db8b338f0ca824dc6d81a7 -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbono...@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com
