Thank you for your comments. I see that the developers would assist of other parts, too.
For developing OSS on big-endian, here are resource for an environment and CI. They would be helpful for code review, too. A trial zLinux VM for OSS development is available. Once we create a VM with RHEL or SLES, it is available up to 120 days. The procedure to create a VM is available at https://github.com/linuxone-community-cloud/technical-resources/blob/master/deploy-virtual-server.md . Regarding CI, TravisCI on zLinux is available. The article is available at https://blog.travis-ci.com/2019-11-12-multi-cpu-architecture-ibm-power-ibm-z . Kazuaki Ishizaki, From: Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> To: dev <dev@arrow.apache.org> Date: 2020/04/21 21:11 Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [C++] Big-endian support I will add that I think big-endian support would be valuable so that the library can be used everywhere, including more exotic mainframe type systems like IBM Z. That said, the code review burden to other C++ developers is likely to become significant, so a solo developer with access to big-endian hardware submitting pull requests could be problematic since no one else with close knowledge of the codebase has a need to support big-endian. That said, if big-endian developers would assist with other parts of the C++ project as a sort of "quid-pro-quo" to balance the time spent on code review relating to big-endian that would be helpful. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:38 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Recently some issues have been opened for big-endian support (i.e. > support for big-endian *hosts*), and a couple patches submitted, thanks > to Kazuaki Ishizaki. See e.g.: > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__issues.apache.org_jira_browse_ARROW-2D8457&d=DwIBaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=b70dG_9wpCdZSkBJahHYQ4IwKMdp2hQM29f-ZCGj9Pg&m=LDU6YozRdOdA8sz-N3IT2-1CDlHn6-VgsQhvAmqcjF0&s=wWPbfEjThpmG7B3LCiHadi28EXcx7v7yhYYAZ8p80cI&e= > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__issues.apache.org_jira_browse_ARROW-2D8467&d=DwIBaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=b70dG_9wpCdZSkBJahHYQ4IwKMdp2hQM29f-ZCGj9Pg&m=LDU6YozRdOdA8sz-N3IT2-1CDlHn6-VgsQhvAmqcjF0&s=xuVttzSLurzBSLUpBFdnMwWtZ7rKCbEcgjCYm72K2QY&e= > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__issues.apache.org_jira_browse_ARROW-2D8486&d=DwIBaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=b70dG_9wpCdZSkBJahHYQ4IwKMdp2hQM29f-ZCGj9Pg&m=LDU6YozRdOdA8sz-N3IT2-1CDlHn6-VgsQhvAmqcjF0&s=StvnEO4FScjt-7328AEqPbMEe-fLs-Ms2g94VHkYHF4&e= > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__issues.apache.org_jira_browse_ARROW-2D8506&d=DwIBaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=b70dG_9wpCdZSkBJahHYQ4IwKMdp2hQM29f-ZCGj9Pg&m=LDU6YozRdOdA8sz-N3IT2-1CDlHn6-VgsQhvAmqcjF0&s=U6wwz875yuTkN4WdS7v_zB4SjIyooH6bgeVh57ByPnE&e= > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__issues.apache.org_jira_browse_PARQUET-2D1845&d=DwIBaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=b70dG_9wpCdZSkBJahHYQ4IwKMdp2hQM29f-ZCGj9Pg&m=LDU6YozRdOdA8sz-N3IT2-1CDlHn6-VgsQhvAmqcjF0&s=ZrNKpegyRlg0SErlYs1FOdBjElPuUzHdxRINWQIzn98&e= > > Achieving big-endian support support accross the C++ Arrow and Parquet > codebases is likely to be a very significant effort, potentially > requiring cooperation between multiple developers. An additional > problem is that, without any Continuous Integration set up, it will be > impossible to ensure progress and be notified of regressions. > > If other people are seriously interested in the desired outcome, they > should probably team up with Kazuaki Ishizaki and discuss a practical > plan to avoid drowning in the difficulties. > > Regards > > Antoine.
