wesm edited a comment on pull request #7334: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7334#issuecomment-638414377
> Well, I won't argue too much about it. But at some point we had decided that wheels were too much of a burden for us, and now it seems we're going out of our way to please people. I'm not sure I understand the strategy. Well, the wheels are being installed [at least 6.5 million times per month](https://pypistats.org/packages/pyarrow) (for point of reference, for pandas it's 22.7M) and so wheel use has an impact on the health and success of the open source project. My attitude is that we shouldn't feel too bad about "taking things away" from the wheels absent more enthusiastic maintainers. With a half day's labor I was able to shrink the wheels by 4x -- the tests / no tests thing wasn't the most significant change but I definitely don't want to be going out of our way to put things in the wheels or maintain special code to cater to wheel users under the present circumstances. I think at least this will stymie some of the pain for some period of time until perhaps more maintainers come out of the woodwork (or I can afford to recruit and hire them). ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
