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alex

01/09/2023, 9:00 PM
From my understanding, it appears that Prefect 2 only supports script based storage options. Is there any plan for adding built in support for pickle based storage like Prefect 1 had?
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Anna Geller

01/09/2023, 11:07 PM
pickle proved to be challenging due to issues with portability as it's tied to specific versions and to Python in general why do you ask?
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alex

01/09/2023, 11:11 PM
I have a use case where I would like to be able to build flows dynamically instead of having a single flow function with parameters and it doesn't look like I can do that with script based storage. https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/CL09KU1K7/p1673025289471209
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Anna Geller

01/09/2023, 11:24 PM
you totally can solve it without pickle can you submit an issue with a minimal reproducible example showing why this wouldn't be possible with script storage? Generally, it's not that we are evil by disabling pickle storage 😄 we just saw many problems with it in the past due to portability issues and there doesn't seem to be any use case shown yet that would justify the need where pickle would be strictly required (i.e. no way to solve without pickle)
a GitHub issue would be better than Slack to share with engineers
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alex

01/09/2023, 11:45 PM
I will do that, thank you.
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