Regarding the wheels I've created an issue:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5158
And there is a pending conda-forge PR in arrow-cpp-feedstock to avoid
building static libraries:
https://github.com/conda-forge/arrow-cpp-feedstock/pull/79
On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 11:50 AM Uwe L. Korn <uw...@xhochy.com> wrote:
>
> > By the way, I don't understand why those are not symlinks.
>
> They should be symlinks, we have special code for this:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/4495305092411e8551c60341e273c8aa3c14b282/python/setup.py#L489-L499
> This is probably not going into the wheel as wheels are zip-files and they
> don't support symlinks by default. So we probably need to pass the
> `--symlinks` parameter to the wheel code.
>
> Uwe
>
