Hello all, Hopefully this email works (I'm not super familiar with using mailing lists like this).
Over the past few weeks, I've been working on a pure Julia implementation to support serializing/deserializing the arrow format for Julia. The code in its current state can be found here: https://github.com/JuliaData/Arrow.jl. I believe the code has reached an initial beta-level quality and just finished writing the arrow <-> json integration testing code that archery expects. I haven't worked on actual archery integration yet, but it should just be a matter of adding a tester_julia.py file that knows how to invoke the test/integrationtest.jl file with similar arguments as the tester_go.py file. This email has a couple purposes: * Signal that the julia code is somewhat ready to be used/integrated in the main repo * Ask for advice/direction on actually integrating with the apache arrow github repository For the latter, in particular, I imagine keeping an initial PR as minimal as possible is desirable. I need to follow up with the core pkg devs for Julia, but I've been told it's possible/not hard to have a Julia package "live" inside a monorepo, but I just haven't figured out the details of what that means on the Julia General package registry side of things. But I'm happy to figure that out and shouldn't really affect the merging of Julia code into the apache arrow github. So my plan is roughly: * Fork/make a branch of the apache arrow repo * Add in the Julia code from the link I mentioned above * Add necessary files/integration in archery to run Julia integration tests alongside other languages * Do initial merge into apache arrow? If there are other initial requirements core devs would expect, just let me know, but I imagine that updating the implementation matrix, for example, can be done afterwards as follow up. Excited to have Julia more officially integrated here! Cheers, -Jacob https://github.com/quinnj https://twitter.com/quinn_jacobd
