Hi Jincheng, Thanks for bring up this discussion!
+1 for this proposal. Building from source takes long time and requires a good network environment. Some users may not have such an environment. Uploading to PyPI will greatly improve the user experience. Best, Wei jincheng sun <sunjincheng...@gmail.com> 于2020年2月4日周二 上午11:49写道： > Hi folks, > > I am very happy to receive some user inquiries about the use of Flink > Python API (PyFlink) recently. One of the more common questions is whether > it is possible to install PyFlink without using source code build. The most > convenient and natural way for users is to use `pip install apache-flink`. > We originally planned to support the use of `pip install apache-flink` in > Flink 1.10, but the reason for this decision was that when Flink 1.9 was > released at August 22, 2019[1], Flink's PyPI account system was not ready. > At present, our PyPI account is available at October 09, 2019 [2](Only PMC > can access), So for the convenience of users I propose: > > - Publish the latest release version (1.9.2) of Flink 1.9 to PyPI. > - Update Flink 1.9 documentation to add support for `pip install`. > > As we all know, Flink 1.9.2 was just completed released at January 31, 2020 > [3]. There is still at least 1 to 2 months before the release of 1.9.3, so > my proposal is completely considered from the perspective of user > convenience. Although the proposed work is not large, we have not set a > precedent for independent release of the Flink Python API(PyFlink) in the > previous release process. I hereby initiate the current discussion and look > forward to your feedback! > > Best, > Jincheng > > [1] > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4a4d23c449f26b66bc58c71cc1a5c6079c79b5049c6c6744224c5f46%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E > [2] > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8273a5e8834b788d8ae552a5e177b69e04e96c0446bb90979444deee%40%3Cprivate.flink.apache.org%3E > [3] > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra27644a4e111476b6041e8969def4322f47d5e0aae8da3ef30cd2926%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E >
