They served as experiments in a time where the functionality may have been useful, but that time has long since passed.
+1 On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 9:19 PM Gino Bustelo <lbust...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > Spark’s support to share temp tables across sessions voids any need for > this multi-Lang support. > > Gino B. > > > On Sep 25, 2018, at 2:20 PM, Corey Stubbs <cas5...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > +1 > > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 13:10 Marius van Niekerk < > marius.v.niek...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> +1 > >> > >> This would simplify usage, and remove a large class of python questions > and > >> confusion on our mailing list. Several users assume that our R and > Python > >> featureset has parity with the primary kernels. > >> > >>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 12:46 kbat...@gmail.com <kbat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> +1 > >>> The benefits that Luciano points out far outweigh the, probably > >>> seldom-used, context sharing capabilities with limited features, IMHO. > >>> This will eliminate an entire class of issues and questions while > >> allowing > >>> contributors to narrow their focus only on scala functionality and > >>> improvements. > >>> > >>>> On 2018/09/25 16:04:33, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> Toree currently has some support for Python and R which are a thin > >>>> wrapper around what is provided in Spark. While this enables sharing > >>>> the Spark session and SQL Context between Scala and Python code, it > >>>> brings a huge gap on functionality when comparing with other Python > >>>> kernels like IPython and IRKernel. Adding to that, there is no > >>>> community member that is actively enhancing and contributing to these > >>>> two areas. > >>>> > >>>> Based on these, I would like to suggest the following to be done for > >>>> Toree 0.3.0 release timeframe: > >>>> - Remove Python and R support from Toree > >>>> - Document possible suggestions on Toree website (e.g. IPython, > >>>> IRKernel or others more active on their respective community) > >>>> > >>>> Some of the benefits: > >>>> - Avoid user confusion and frustration > >>>> - Improve kernel startup performance > >>>> - Cleaner code to maintain > >>>> > >>>> Please let me know your thoughts. > >>>> > >>>> [1] > >>> > >> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-toree/blob/master/etc/examples/notebooks/sqlcontext_sharing.ipynb > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Luciano Resende > >>>> http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > >>>> http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > >>>> > >>> > >> -- > >> regards > >> Marius van Niekerk > >> >
