I don't have a strong view on this. As is, Feather serves as a convenient / simple encapsulation of an IPC file. Plenty of people use pandas.read_feather, so if we mark the name as deprecated in Arrow, then we would be asking pandas and other downstream consumers to deprecate it also in favor of read_arrow_file or something similar. In either case, it would be good to collect some feedback from various stakeholders.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 3:51 PM Weston Pace <weston.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Feather V2 is currently synonymous with the IPC format. My impression > is that the feather terminology is now being deprecated in favor of > IPC. Do we want to start marking feather modules as deprecated (both > in code and the documentation) and more explicitly point users to the > newer RecordBatchFileReader / RecordBatchStreamReader alternatives?
