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Dongjoon

On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 23:53 Yang Jie <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1
>
> 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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