Spark using 2.10 (or maybe 2.11) and newer Akka will come together -- but not until after 0.8.0, which is in release candidates now. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:20 AM, David Greco wrote: > Hi Spark team, > I totally agree with Paul. Spark it's an amazing tool and there are not > real competitors around. So, I definitely agree on the need to keep a bit > more up to date with the Scala world, and not only Scala 2.10 but also a > more recent version of Akka for example. > Anyway, really thanks for the great job you're doing! > > > David Greco > d.greco@icloud.com > greco@acm.org > d.greco@computer.org > https://github.com/dgreco > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davgreco > Twitter: davidgreco > > On Sep 19, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Paul Snively wrote: > > > Hi team, > > > > Please tell me the 0.8.0 release supports Scala 2.10. :-) > > > > The BDAS stack is very exciting! Unfortunately, lagging the development > of the language itself (2.11 is at Milestone 4!) is increasingly > problematic. > > > > I would also like to encourage the Spark Streaming developers to head in > the direction of making DStream conform to the Scala and Java collections > APIs. A possible model to emulate here is Kafka's KafkaStream, which > satisfies both Scala's and Java's Iterable interfaces, making their > effective use considerably more straightforward than, frankly, DStreams are > at the moment. Please also consider OOB support for Play! iteratees, which, > as of the Play! 2.2.x releases, are a nicely-separate module from the rest > of Play! > > > > Lest this sound like all complaints, I'm asking for this because I > expect to use BDAS for many years due to the lack of realistic competition > (I've already explained in-house why Summingbird isn't it) :-) and because > I'm lazy. Please keep up the excellent work, and I hope to make one of the > Meetups next time I'm in the neighborhood. > > > > Best regards, > > Paul > >