Aw: Re: Aw: Aw: Re: Packaging of Apache Arrow - where are we?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

On 19 August 2025 at 08:15, Steffen Möller wrote:
| Yes, please have a look. I suggest we start with a very core of the
| software (C++ and Python) and then see who wants to join with additional
| languages.

There is also a feature-matrix of what is enabled. Here is what the (current)
R package shows (built outside of the distro as usual) on my box:


| > arrow::arrow_info()
Arrow package version: 21.0.0.1

Capabilities:
               
acero      TRUE
dataset    TRUE
substrait FALSE
parquet    TRUE
json       TRUE
s3         TRUE
gcs        TRUE
utf8proc   TRUE
re2        TRUE
snappy     TRUE
gzip       TRUE
brotli     TRUE
zstd       TRUE
lz4        TRUE
lz4_frame  TRUE
lzo       FALSE
bz2        TRUE
jemalloc   TRUE
mimalloc   TRUE

Memory:
                  
Allocator mimalloc
Current    0 bytes
Max        0 bytes

Runtime:
                          
SIMD Level          avx512
Detected SIMD Level avx512

Build:
                           
C++ Library Version  21.0.0
C++ Compiler            GNU
C++ Compiler Version 11.4.0

> 

My C++ compiler is newer, but this was a 'narrower and faster' build that
pulled pre-made shared libraries in. Which we can't do.

Thanks for working on this. It is both important and difficult.

Cheers, Dirk
 

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