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You will have to walk the gangplank.
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Sep 23, 2016
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I've heavily modified my Spark source code. What are the consequences?
So, I've violated Spark's best practice and modified many of Spark's source files. Spark didn't really work for what I needed without extensive modification, so I took matters into my own hands. I realize that this means I won't be able to update Spark, but how serious of an issue is that, really? If it turns out there are security holes that future updates fix, I feel confident I can look at the changes in the update and make the necessary modifications myself.
I'm just curious as to hear other people's thoughts on this. I realize I probably should have gone with a different approach from the start but at this point the changes are so integrated with my application it feels like a waste of time to go back through and undo everything. What would you guys do in my situation, is this something I should be worried about?
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@jlrdw good thing I can swim ;)
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I would consider only modify the things that are ok to, and try to write custom classes to deal with the other.
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@jlrdw that's the plan for future projects, but for this project it feels like I've already modified it so much, continuing to do it that way won't make much difference
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