Splitting client code

[David Arthur]

Seems to be a commonly discussed topic. What do people thing about this? 
Are there any plans for it in 0.8?

When I've done stuff like this in the past for projects, it's been a 
combination of reorganizing code and configuring a build tool like Ivy 
using sub-modules. Does sbt support modules in a similar fashion?

The counter argument, of course, is that Kafka is a small project with 
minimal dependencies, so a thin client artifact is not going to save you 
much. That said, a Java consumer/producer jar with no dependencies would 
be nice :)

-David