Hi Jincheng, Thanks for driving this. +1 for this proposal.
Compared to building from source, downloading directly from PyPI will greatly save the development cost of Python users. Best, Xingbo Wei Zhong <weizhong0...@gmail.com> 于2020年2月4日周二 下午12:43写道： > Hi Jincheng, > > Thanks for bring up this discussion! > > +1 for this proposal. Building from source takes long time and requires a > good network environment. Some users may not have such an environment. > Uploading to PyPI will greatly improve the user experience. > > Best, > Wei > > jincheng sun <sunjincheng...@gmail.com> 于2020年2月4日周二 上午11:49写道： > >> Hi folks, >> >> I am very happy to receive some user inquiries about the use of Flink >> Python API (PyFlink) recently. One of the more common questions is whether >> it is possible to install PyFlink without using source code build. The >> most >> convenient and natural way for users is to use `pip install apache-flink`. >> We originally planned to support the use of `pip install apache-flink` in >> Flink 1.10, but the reason for this decision was that when Flink 1.9 was >> released at August 22, 2019[1], Flink's PyPI account system was not ready. >> At present, our PyPI account is available at October 09, 2019 [2](Only PMC >> can access), So for the convenience of users I propose: >> >> - Publish the latest release version (1.9.2) of Flink 1.9 to PyPI. >> - Update Flink 1.9 documentation to add support for `pip install`. >> >> As we all know, Flink 1.9.2 was just completed released at January 31, >> 2020 >> [3]. There is still at least 1 to 2 months before the release of 1.9.3, so >> my proposal is completely considered from the perspective of user >> convenience. Although the proposed work is not large, we have not set a >> precedent for independent release of the Flink Python API(PyFlink) in the >> previous release process. I hereby initiate the current discussion and >> look >> forward to your feedback! >> >> Best, >> Jincheng >> >> [1] >> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4a4d23c449f26b66bc58c71cc1a5c6079c79b5049c6c6744224c5f46%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E >> [2] >> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8273a5e8834b788d8ae552a5e177b69e04e96c0446bb90979444deee%40%3Cprivate.flink.apache.org%3E >> [3] >> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra27644a4e111476b6041e8969def4322f47d5e0aae8da3ef30cd2926%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E >> >
