Hi Steffen, Steffen Möller, on 2021-08-22: > Apache Arrow https://arrow.apache.org/faq/ knows how to efficiently > handle large tabular data. And, while not in our distribution, it blocks > some workflows for Debian Med. Arrow comes with interfaces to all the > prominent languages, for the Med-workflows it is typically the Python > interface pyarrow that is needed. > > https://arrow.apache.org/install/ presents a repository for Debian with > a binary distribution on https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/arrow. Now, > ideally, Apache would have contributed to Debian directly instead of > providing their own repository. Maybe the right way to approach this > would be to team up with the Apache folks. I just do not see any means > to us just go and use their binary in the meantime since anything > depending on it would not be buildable/testable. > > I am not using Arrow myself, but I presume just like me you all know > some project that should be using it :) Thank you for the prospective! I see Sasha filed an RFP some time ago [1], so there is definitely interest in Apache Arrow. I don't know whether there is a packaging effort at the moment, but if there is, I haven't found it by doing a research on Salsa. [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970021 Have a nice day, :) -- Étienne Mollier <emollier@emlwks999.eu> Fingerprint: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da Sent from /dev/pts/2, please excuse my verbosity.
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