Hi, everyone: iceberg-rust <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/> has been under active development for several months, and it now has several features, so I want to use this thread to discuss delivering the first release of this crate.
Why this first release 0.2.0? Before iceberg-rust <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/> was developed, there were already efforts trying to develop a rust version of iceberg, and it has been registered in crates.io under the name `iceberg`. We contacted the authors and they kindly transferred the ownership of this crate to apache, so that we can use `iceberg` as our crate's name. But due to the immutability of crate.io <https://crates.io/>'s package, we can only start with version 0.2.0. Where are we? Currently we have delivered following features: 1. Rest catalog, including manipulating namespaces, load table, create table, etc. 2. Serialization/deserialization of table metadata, manifests. 3. Documentation for this crate: https://rust.iceberg.apache.org/ What's next? Eventually we will reach feature parity with java/python api, so that we can bring full feature support of the iceberg to rust ecosystems. For details of feature status, please check the `README.md` in github repo <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/> .
