[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-30665) Eliminate pypandoc dependency

["Colin Dean (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Colin Dean commented on SPARK-30665:
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While researching a problem we're encountering while trying to install any of PySpark 2.3-2.4 — upgrading past that is not an option presently — we're finding that {{pypandoc}} changed its API in a recent release, thereby breaking setup.py on these old PySpark releases because these releases did not specify a bound on the dependency.

What are the chances that the patch that removes the {{pypandoc}} requirement could accepted as a backport to a 2.3 or 2.4 release? I'm happy to put up the PR to the branches if there's a process for nudging a 2.3.5 and 2.4.9 out to make those minor releases installable again.

> Eliminate pypandoc dependency
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-30665
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-30665
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Build, Documentation, PySpark
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0
>            Reporter: Nicholas Chammas
>            Assignee: Nicholas Chammas
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.0.0
>
>
> PyPI now supports Markdown project descriptions, so we no longer need to convert the Spark README into ReStructuredText and thus no longer need pypandoc.
> Removing pypandoc has the added benefit of eliminating the failure mode described in [this PR|https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18981].



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