[QUESTION]: IBM Power (ppc64le) Support for current releases

[jackpots28]

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Hello!

You all are my go to vector store for many of my current projects.

I use a few different architectures as development environments, including: x86, Apple Silicon, and IBM Power. For both x86 and Apple Silicon (ARM) I've had no issues with feature support and functionality at current release and love the product.

Though, I do have some use cases that require runtime of database connection to occur on IBM Power (ppc64le Rhel 8/9) environments.

Currently, I am only able to run Pymilvus at version 2.3.0 for these projects, which is lacking a few features that are present in more current releases. Are there plans to build releases >2.3.* in the future that support this architecture?

Thank you for any insight!

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[XuanYang-cn]

@jackpots28 Hi, thanks for choosing us.

"Be able to use PyMilvus<=2.3.0" seems to me that ppc64le is another unsupported milvus-lite platform. see milvus-lite.

However, if your case doesn't need Milvus-lite, the easiest work around is to modify pyproject.toml and remove milvus-lite dependency and then build pymilvus locally like:

pip install git+ssh://github.com/[your-repo]/pymilvus.git@[your branch]
# or
pip install -e .

[jackpots28]

@XuanYang-cn Excellent! Originally I was banking on using Milvus-lite, but knowing that this dependency can be removed if not going down that route is great news. Thank you for this, best regards