+1 (binding)
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:54 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> 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 into downstream > applications, no external dependencies are needed (notable, 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). Enable C libraries to export > Arrow columnar data at C call sites with minimal code > > This "C Data Interface" serves different use cases from the > language-independent IPC protocol and trades away a number of features > (such as forward/backward compatibility) 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 call sites. > > The PR providing the specification is here > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5442 > > 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
