There has already been a discussion about this recently: http://apache-flink-incubator-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Changing-Scala-Version-to-2-11-x-td1473.html
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Alexander Alexandrov < alexander.s.alexand...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently, Flink uses Scala 2.10.4 and relies on the macro paradise > compiler plugin to get the quasi-quotes functionality. > > This makes the code incompatible with third-party add-ons that use macros > written against a newer version of Scala. > > Scala 2.11 has been around for almost a year already. It comes with a bit > more advanced reflection API than 2.10 and quasi-quotes bundled in. I think > that by now there should be a 2.11 version for most of the other > Scala-based dependencies used in Flink. > > Are there any plans in the roadmap to upgrade this to 2.11 in one of the > next releases? If not, what is the main issue blocking this change? > > I suspect that this might be a question which has been already discussed > here, but I failed to find relevant threads in the mailing list. > > Regards, > Alexander >
