"Optional" means that not every Avro implementation is currently expected to provide support for Snappy compression. So, before folks use it they should check that it's supported in all the implementations they'll be using.
Whether the Python implementation requires the snappy library even if folks don't use Snappy is a separate question. If this is problematic it could probably be altered. Doug On 10/21/2011 07:18 PM, Bo Shi wrote: > Hi all, > > The below comment seems to suggest that snappy is an optional codec, > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-788?focusedCommentId=13016182&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13016182 > > But it's a required library in the current python distribution. Is > this intentional? > > > Bo
