#3052 [Housekeeping] Remove unused retry dependency in flytekit Issue created by hajapy Describe the issue Remove the unused

retry

library dependency declared by flytekit: https://github.com/flyteorg/flytekit/blob/3b5d15acb5389d99b86ba342a77e1cab5ce8546d/setup.py#L68 This library is not used anywhere within flytekit that I can find searching for

import retry

or

from retry

, except in the sagemaker plugin: https://github.com/flyteorg/flytekit/blob/3b5d15acb5389d99b86ba342a77e1cab5ce8546d/plugins/flytekit-aws-sagemaker/flytekitplugins/awssagemaker/distributed_training.py#L8 The dependency could be moved to the sagemaker plugin's requirements so only users of that plugin need it installed. Though, given the unmaintained state of the retry library, I'd advise against that and suggest to look for a maintained alternative (reretry? https://github.com/leshchenko1979/reretry) What if we do not do this? All users of flytekit end up installing an unmaintained library (see invl/retry#36, not updated since 2016), which also ends up bringing with it unnecessary dependency on

py

which itself has been the source of lots of security alerting pytest-dev/py#287 Related component(s) flytekit Are you sure this issue hasn't been raised already? ☑︎ Yes Have you read the Code of Conduct? ☑︎ Yes flyteorg/flyte