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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-189: ------------------------------------ OK by me to remove them so long as the Travis CI builds keep working, and the {{$FOO_HOME}} environment variables keep doing the right thing > C++: Use ExternalProject to build thirdparty dependencies > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-189 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-189 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: C++ > Reporter: Uwe L. Korn > Assignee: Uwe L. Korn > > My main incentive here is that I want to have a Python sdist that can be > installed with a simple `pip install ./dist/pyarrow.tar.gz` (so we could > provide source distributions on PyPI). This will still let the install of > pyarrow depend on CMake but at least we would have the ability of a source > distribution. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)