Migration to Apache Pekko

Gatling (Open-Source)
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Hi,

Thanks for all the work you are doing on this tool. I saw your post regarding pinning the version of Akka: Is Gatling affected by Akka licencing changes?

I have a couple of questions regarding the topic:

  • Are you planning to migrate to Apache Pekko or to stay indefinitely in Akka 2.6.x?
  • Would you accept a contribution to migrating Gatling to Apache Pekko?

Thanks in advance.
Samuele

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Hi,

Thanks for your kind words.

For now, we don’t plan on switching as we’re not aware of a compelling reason that would balance the pain:

  • migration of our Enterprise version too
  • break community plugins
  • breaking change for users who would expect Akka to be available transitively in the classpath

Could you please elaborate on the benefits of this move?

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Thanks for clarifying. The main concern of pinning Akka 2.6.x is that is not actively bug-fixed / security updated (See: https://www.lightbend.com/akka/license-faq)

Samuele

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We only use akka-core (and a bit of akka-io), not advanced things like akka-cluster.
I don’t think this module as seen a bug or a security issue for ages.

Then, should a major bug or a security issue arise, then we would indeed consider switching (or ditching Akka entirely). But we’re yet to see one.

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