Re: [DISCUSS] Drop Scala 2.11

Posted by Aljoscha Krettek on
URL: http://deprecated-apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.369.s1.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Drop-Scala-2-11-tp38027p38028.html

Yes! I would be in favour of this since it's blocking us from upgrading
certain dependencies.

I would also be in favour of dropping Scala completely but that's a
different story.

Aljoscha

On 10.09.20 16:51, Seth Wiesman wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Think of this as a pre-flip, but what does everyone think about dropping
> Scala 2.11 support from Flink.
>
> The last patch release was in 2017 and in that time the scala community has
> released 2.13 and is working towards a 3.0 release. Apache Kafka and Spark
> have both dropped 2.11 support in recent versions. In fact, Flink's
> universal Kafka connector is stuck on 2.4 because that is the last version
> with scala 2.11 support.
>
> What are people's thoughts on dropping Scala 2.11? How many are still using
> it in production?
>
> Seth
>