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Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics)

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On 3/25/24 7:17 PM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> So this is a plea for anyone looking for something really helpful to
> do: it would be great to have a group of developers finally package
> this!  There was some initial work done (see the RFP bug report for
> details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970021),
> but that is fairly old now.  As Apache Arrow supports numerous
> languages, it may well benefit from having a group of developers with
> different areas of expertise to build it.  (Or perhaps it would make
> more sense to split the upstream source into a collection of different
> Debian source packages for the different supported languages.  I don't
> know.)  Unfortunately I don't have the capacity to devote any time to
> it myself.
> 
> Thanks in advance for anyone who can step forward for this!

As someone from the Debian-GIS community, I would also be very interested in this!

The Apache Arrow C++ library is one of the dependencies to make GDAL/OGR able to read/write (geo)parquet files, a data format with a lot traction in the geo community [0]. Thereby making it possible for QGIS to handle those (on Debian).

[0] https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2023/09/duckdb-the-indispensable-geospatial-tool-you-didnt-know-you-were-missing/

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

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Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP:  apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics) Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> - 2024-03-25 19:20 +0100
  Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics) Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> - 2024-03-29 21:00 +0100
  Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics) Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2024-03-30 21:30 +0100
    Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics) Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2024-03-31 13:30 +0200
      Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics) Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> - 2024-03-31 14:00 +0200
  Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics) Richard Duivenvoorde <richard@duiv.nl> - 2024-04-06 09:52 +0200

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