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Support for installing CQLSH with PIP was added unofficially outside of the Apache project in October 2013. The CQLSH project has been maintained continually since as a separate project. Today, CQLSH is installable on any platform supporting Python with PIP. Recent code refactoring of CQLSH with CASSANDRA-17531 and CASSANDRA-17534 have improved its modularity as a reusable package.
This CEP proposes an official distribution of CQLSH on PyPI and to incorporate this distribution into the Apache Cassandra release process.
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