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Make pandas dependency optional #290
Description
There are a lot of projects with Tarantool+Python which are not interested in using datetimes (for example, all projects with Tarantool 2.8 and older). They are still obliged to install pandas and pytz, both are rather heavy. Users ask to make this dependency optional.
It seems that Python package mechanism for providing optional dependencies is "extras". We also shouldn't forget to make deb and rpm package dependencies optional.
This change is a breaking one, since user would need to change their setup process if they want to work with datetimes.
We may start throwing errors for datetimes in msgpack if we cannot parse them or return some dictionaries/tuples with raw binary data.
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LeonidVas commentedon Apr 11, 2023
Talked, it looks like it makes sense to do a split into 2 packages and the default should be a package with support for all types on board.
But there's a lot to think about.
package: allow to use without pandas and pytz
internal: change datetime implementation
internal: change datetime implementation
internal: change datetime implementation
internal: change datetime implementation
internal: change datetime implementation
internal: change datetime implementation
internal: change datetime implementation
release 1.0.0
release 1.0.0