Removing local mode

[ahmadnazeri]

Description

Removing local mode from the client and cli so users cannot utilize local mode anymore. This does not remove all the code related to local mode but rather just access to it.

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[dvdr00t]

Hello everyone,
I was wondering why the local mode has been "removed" from the main package and if there is a valuable alternative to that. I have been using the PyPI package of Featureform version 1.11.2 and I need the provider to be a local provider as I have multiple .csv files from which I need to infere features. How does that work now?

Thanks!

[sdreyer]

Hey @dvdr00t this slipped past. For now localmode is effectively deprecated but can still be used in the older package versions. We're working on making it simpler to run the core codebase as a single executable locally, which will have access to local files and can act as a replacement to localmode for now. This is mainly due to the overhead of managing two separate code bases for the same functionality. The changes to the core backend should be complete in a couple weeks.

[dvdr00t]

Cool, many thanks for your reply, @sdreyer! Looking forward to the new version! 👍