I also started reading this book and what I have read so far is quite impressive - thank you Fernando.
While keeping the code in a separate repo for now makes sense, what do you think about including a link to your guide in the Rust Arrow crate's README.md? Andrew On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 2:31 PM Fernando Herrera < fernando.j.herr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Jorge. It does mean a lot your comments, and please, do help me get > it better. > > I was wondering as well to put it inside the arrow crate but at the > beginning I think it is going to be changing a lot, so I think it would be > a good idea to keep it in a separate repo so we can iterate on it as much > as possible. > > What about creating a Rust Arrow group in github to keep the fast changing > projects apart in different repos but with in the same group? > > Fernando, > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, 17:28 Jorge Cardoso Leitão, <jorgecarlei...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I went through it, and I have to say that it is really well written and > > contains non-trivial knowledge about the arrow crate. Thank you very much > > for this, Fernando. > > > > In my opinion alone, the guide or a variation of it could be incorporated > > into the arrow repo and released together with the crate, as is standard > in > > other rust projects. I for one would contribute and put time into > enhancing > > and maintaining it as part of the rust implementation, review changes to > it > > by other contributors, and keep it up to date. > > > > Best, > > Jorge > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 6:25 PM Fernando Herrera < > > fernando.j.herr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > During the past months I have been trying to read and understand the > code > > > base for the Rust implementation of Arrow. At the beginning I was just > > > reading the code and figuring out what each part or module was used > for. > > > Unfortunately this approach didn't work very well and had to start from > > > scratch. The next time while trying to understand it I was also writing > > > descriptions of the things I was studying and how to implement them. > This > > > approach led me to writing up a small Arrow guide. > > > > > > At this point is not complete and has several chapters missing, but > > that's > > > the point of this mail. I was wondering if someone that wants to work > (or > > > is already working) on the Rust side would like to help me make the > guide > > > better and richer. > > > > > > The first sections can be found here: > > > https://elferherrera.github.io/arrow_guide/introduction.html > > > > > > And the repo is here: > > > https://github.com/elferherrera/arrow_guide/ > > > > > > The guide at the moment is written with mdbook and uses the doc-comment > > > crate to check all the code. Also, the book is pulling the Arrow crate > > from > > > git directly, so it is always reading the most recent api. > > > > > > I hope someone finds these writings useful and if you are willing to > help > > > me just let me know. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Fernando > > > > > >
