I'd certainly like to deprecate our custom Python serialization format, and using pickle protocol 5 instead is a very good idea.
We can probably keep it in 1.0 while raising a FutureWarning. Regards Antoine. Le 12/07/2020 à 19:22, Wes McKinney a écrit : > It appears that the Ray developers have decided to fork Plasma and > decouple from the Arrow codebase: > > https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/9154 > > This is a disappointing development to occur without any discussion on > this mailing list but given the lack of development activity on Plasma > I would like to see how others in the community would like to proceed. > > It appears additionally that the Union-based serialization format > implemented by arrow/python/serialize.h and the pyarrow/serialize.py > has been dropped in favor of pickle5. If there is not value in > maintaining this code then it would probably be preferable for us to > remove this from the codebase. > > Thanks, > Wes >