This is great news! Congrats to everyone who worked on this to make it possible. I know that the cross-endianness question was something that came up periodically (even though BE systems are increasingly exotic nowadays) so it's great that we now have a robust answer
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 8:48 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I would like to announce that we have just merged > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7507, which implements - on the C++ > side - endianness conversion when reading IPC data with non-native > endianness. > > This means that IPC and Flight communication using Arrow C++ should be > possible between systems with different native endiannesses. This > feature is experimental for now: there are basic integration tests, but > it should be exercised a bit more before we declare it stable. > > We've also added an entry in the feature compatibility matrix: > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/docs/source/status.rst#ipc-format > > Regards > > Antoine.
