oh gosh, I just saw this reply too! I've just caught up with the thread around the build+release/packaging. As far as Bazel goes, I can put up a patch and discuss some of the pros/cons in the context of stated issues around packaging. It likely won't help with the release reliability questions, which seem separate.
(Enjoy your vacation, Wes) Thanks! Buro On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:13 PM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi Buro, > > Sorry for the delay in writing back! > > Our build systems would benefit a great deal from this sort of > attention. Each component has its own build system at the moment, but > it would be useful to have a Bazel-based build, for C++ at least but > perhaps more components in the future. We've invested a lot of energy > in building the CMake build system to this point and handling > automatically building the dependencies; if Bazel ends up being more > future-proof or more maintainable, that sounds good to me. In any > case, we'd be glad to have you involved with the project. > > best, > Wes > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Bhaskar Mookerji <mooke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Truncation error: > > > > *helping contribute back to the ecosystem. Thanks for all the hard work! > > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Bhaskar Mookerji <mooke...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Hey ya'll - > >> > >> I've been following Apache Arrow for a bit and am catching up by > building > >> the project locally on my machine. I was wondering: would there be any > >> interest in having a Bazel-based build available for arrow-cpp and its > >> bindings? > >> > >> I would be happy to put up a polished proof of concept as a Github PR > and > >> test it on Travis, as well as help maintain it in the future. I'm > totally > >> aware that things like build tools and discussions about them introduce > >> overhead for project maintainers and can distract from other > priorities. If > >> there are any serious objections, I'd love to hear them or write up a > more > >> detailed proposal. > >> > >> Background: I'm an engineer in the SF Bay Area with a recreational and > >> professional interest in the scientific computing and machine learning. > I'm > >> really interested in helping > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Buro > >> >
