+1 (binding)
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 4:29 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > Ah, you're right, it's PR 6040: > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/6040 > > Similarly, the C++ implementation is at PR 6026: > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/6026 > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > Le 11/02/2020 à 23:17, Wes McKinney a écrit : > > hi Antoine, PR 5442 seems to no longer be the right one. Which open PR > > contains the specification now? > > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 1:06 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> We have been discussing the creation of a minimalist C-based data > >> interface for applications to exchange Arrow columnar data structures > >> with each other. Some notable features of this interface include: > >> > >> * A small amount of header-only C code can be copied independently into > >> third-party libraries and downstream applications, no dependencies are > >> needed even on Arrow C++ itself (notably, it is not required to use > >> Flatbuffers, though there are trade-offs resulting from this). > >> > >> * Low development investment (in other words: limited-scope use cases > >> can be accomplished with little code), so as to enable C or C++ > >> libraries to export Arrow columnar data with minimal code. > >> > >> * Data lifetime management hooks so as to properly handle non-trivial > >> data sharing (for example passing Arrow columnar data to an async > >> processing consumer). > >> > >> This "C Data Interface" serves different use cases from the > >> language-independent IPC protocol and trades away a number of features > >> in the interest of minimalism / simplicity. It is not a replacement for > >> the IPC protocol and will only be used to interchange in-process data at > >> C or C++ call sites. > >> > >> The PR providing the specification is here: > >> https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5442 > >> > >> In particular, you can read the spec document here: > >> https://github.com/pitrou/arrow/blob/doc-c-data-interface2/docs/source/format/CDataInterface.rst > >> > >> A fairly comprehensive C++ implementation of this demonstrating its > >> use is found here: > >> https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5608 > >> > >> (note that other applications implementing the interface may choose to > >> only support a few features and thus have far less code to write) > >> > >> Please vote to adopt the SPECIFICATION (GitHub PR #5442). > >> > >> This vote will be open for at least 72 hours > >> > >> [ ] +1 Adopt C Data Interface specification > >> [ ] +0 > >> [ ] -1 Do not adopt because... > >> > >> Thank you > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> Antoine. > >> > >> > >> (PS: yes, this is in large part a copy/paste of Wes's previous vote > >> email :-))
