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Jun Rao commented on KAFKA-1399:
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We are re-rewriting the clients in java. Once that's done, it will be a lot
easier to drop the scala 2.8.X support since most people won't care the version
of scala on the broker.
> Drop Scala 2.8.x support
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>
> Key: KAFKA-1399
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1399
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: packaging
> Affects Versions: 0.8.1
> Reporter: Stevo Slavic
> Labels: gradle, scala
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> It's been almost 4 years since [Scala 2.8 has been
> released|http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/7009] and 3 years since [Scala
> 2.9 has been released|http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/9483], so there was
> more than plenty of time to migrate.
> Continued support of old Scala 2.8 is causing issues like
> [this|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1362?focusedCommentId=13970390&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13970390].
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