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On 2026/03/09 04:40:54 Reynold Xin via dev wrote:
> +1
> 
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM Hyukjin Kwon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > +1
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Mar 2026 at 10:37, Ruifeng Zheng <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> +1
> >>
> >> I remember PyArrow doesn't support PyPy, either.
> >>
> >> Because of the missing support of these dependencies, the test coverage
> >> of PyPy is low, it basically only tests Core and SQL.
> >> Tests for Connect, ML, Structured Streaming and Pandas API are always
> >> skipped in CI.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 4:34 AM Tian Gao via dev <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> We claim to support pypy, but as far as I know, no one is really
> >>> maintaining it. pypy3.11 CI has been failing for a long time, and we've
> >>> just ignored it.
> >>>
> >>> numpy has dropped support for pypy recently -
> >>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/30764 because pypy itself is not
> >>> well maintained. They have not announced abandonment, but there have only
> >>> been 7 commits this year. The latest python version they support is 3.11
> >>> (CPython is 3.14 now). There was a verbal plan to support 3.12 but the
> >>> progress is unclear.
> >>>
> >>> We could've used the CI resources to test other much more common
> >>> platform/version combinations for spark.
> >>>
> >>> Overall:
> >>> * pypy seems to be dying
> >>> * few people are really using it
> >>> * we do not care about it enough to fix the CI
> >>> * we can have more resources on important use cases.
> >>> * if numpy dropped support, we will lose a lot of the use cases anyway
> >>>
> >>> How do we feel about this? Do we really have a reason to keep it
> >>> supported?
> >>>
> >>> Tian Gao
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ruifeng Zheng
> >> E-mail: [email protected]
> >>
> >
> 

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