This seems like something to investigate after the 1.0 release. Neal
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 11:53 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > I'd certainly like to deprecate our custom Python serialization format, > and using pickle protocol 5 instead is a very good idea. > > We can probably keep it in 1.0 while raising a FutureWarning. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > Le 12/07/2020 à 19:22, Wes McKinney a écrit : > > It appears that the Ray developers have decided to fork Plasma and > > decouple from the Arrow codebase: > > > > https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/9154 > > > > This is a disappointing development to occur without any discussion on > > this mailing list but given the lack of development activity on Plasma > > I would like to see how others in the community would like to proceed. > > > > It appears additionally that the Union-based serialization format > > implemented by arrow/python/serialize.h and the pyarrow/serialize.py > > has been dropped in favor of pickle5. If there is not value in > > maintaining this code then it would probably be preferable for us to > > remove this from the codebase. > > > > Thanks, > > Wes > > >
