Perhaps we can make one more major release with 3.5 and then drop. 3.5 is the default in some Linux distributions so there is some value in getting a reasonably up-to-date wheel when using the system python-pip
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 6:21 AM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I would also be in favour of dropping 3.5, though it's much less costly > to support it than to support 2.7. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > Le 26/02/2020 à 13:17, Krisztián Szűcs a écrit : > > I'm not sure whether we have a decision on dropping support for python 3.5 > > or not, but the python 3.5 wheels are failing because of recent patches, see > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7936. > > > > We have another issue about dropping python 3.5 support: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5679 > > > > We should either drop support for 3.5 or fix ARROW-7936, personally I'd > > prefer the former to reduce the maintenance cost for the wheels. > > > > Opinions? > > > > Regards, Krisztian > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 9:56 AM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi Micah, > >> > >> Unlike 2.7, it's not onerous at all, so we can definitely maintain it > >> for a couple more months if desired. > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> Antoine. > >> > >> > >> Le 20/02/2020 à 04:47, Micah Kornfield a écrit : > >>> Hi Antoine, > >>> Do you have a timeline for the 3.5 support? If possible could it maybe > >>> wait until after the next release or has it become onerous to maintain? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Micah > >>> > >>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 1:24 AM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> Following the previous discussions on this mailing-list, we have > >>>> entirely removed Python 2.7 support from the codebase (see ARROW-5757 on > >>>> JIRA). This deleted a lot of compatibility code that was spread around > >>>> the C++ and Python codebases. > >>>> > >>>> As a reminder, Python 2.7 has stopped being supported by the upstream > >>>> CPython project (symbolically, a last 2.7 release will be made around > >>>> the next PyCon US, in April). > >>>> > >>>> PyArrow now supports Python versions from 3.5 to 3.8, but there's also > >>>> an issue open to remove 3.5 support: see ARROW-5679 on JIRA. > >>>> > >>>> Regards > >>>> > >>>> Antoine. > >>>> > >>>
