+1 to deprecating but not yet removing support for 3.6 On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:47 AM Shane Knapp <skn...@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> +1 to testing the absolute minimum number of python variants as possible. > ;) > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 7:46 PM Hyukjin Kwon <gurwls...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 from me as well. >> >> 2019년 10월 29일 (화) 오전 5:34, Xiangrui Meng <m...@databricks.com>님이 작성: >> >>> +1. And we should start testing 3.7 and maybe 3.8 in Jenkins. >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 9:34 AM Dongjoon Hyun <dongjoon.h...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thank you for starting the thread. >>>> >>>> In addition to that, we currently are testing Python 3.6 only in Apache >>>> Spark Jenkins environment. >>>> >>>> Given that Python 3.8 is already out and Apache Spark 3.0.0 RC1 will >>>> start next January >>>> (https://spark.apache.org/versioning-policy.html), I'm +1 for the >>>> deprecation (Python < 3.6) at Apache Spark 3.0.0. >>>> >>>> It's just a deprecation to prepare the next-step development cycle. >>>> >>>> Bests, >>>> Dongjoon. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 1:10 AM Maciej Szymkiewicz < >>>> mszymkiew...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>> >>>>> While deprecation of Python 2 in 3.0.0 has been announced >>>>> <https://spark.apache.org/news/plan-for-dropping-python-2-support.html>, >>>>> there is no clear statement about specific continuing support of different >>>>> Python 3 version. >>>>> >>>>> Specifically: >>>>> >>>>> - Python 3.4 has been retired this year. >>>>> - Python 3.5 is already in the "security fixes only" mode and >>>>> should be retired in the middle of 2020. >>>>> >>>>> Continued support of these two blocks adoption of many new Python >>>>> features (PEP 468) and it is hard to justify beyond 2020. >>>>> >>>>> Should these two be deprecated in 3.0.0 as well? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> Maciej >>>>> >>>>> > > -- > Shane Knapp > UC Berkeley EECS Research / RISELab Staff Technical Lead > https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu > -- Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 <https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9> YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau
