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authorSean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>2016-04-28 10:41:15 -0700
committerReynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>2016-04-28 10:41:15 -0700
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[SPARK-14882][DOCS] Clarify that Spark can be cross-built for other Scala versions
## What changes were proposed in this pull request? Add simple clarification that Spark can be cross-built for other Scala versions. ## How was this patch tested? Automated doc build Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com> Closes #12757 from srowen/SPARK-14882.
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<div data-lang="scala" markdown="1">
-Spark {{site.SPARK_VERSION}} uses Scala {{site.SCALA_BINARY_VERSION}}. To write
+Spark {{site.SPARK_VERSION}} is built and distributed to work with Scala {{site.SCALA_BINARY_VERSION}}
+by default. (Spark can be built to work with other versions of Scala, too.) To write
applications in Scala, you will need to use a compatible Scala version (e.g. {{site.SCALA_BINARY_VERSION}}.X).
To write a Spark application, you need to add a Maven dependency on Spark. Spark is available through Maven Central at: