paleolimbot commented on issue #563:
URL: 
https://github.com/apache/arrow-nanoarrow/issues/563#issuecomment-2240006760

   That's a great point! The .pxd generator is really helpful but pretty wild:
   
   
https://github.com/apache/arrow-nanoarrow/blob/fcf3a809f8b8f8facfb8f29284c006429cc91d49/python/bootstrap.py#L24-L170
   
   The functions that are included in the .pxd match a very narrow regex that 
only includes declarations (not definitions). I forget exactly why this 
happened but I think allowing it to end with something other than `);` caused 
some problems (it's tricky because functions definitions can span multiple 
lines and contain nested parentheses).
   
   When the .pxd generator was written we had more constraints than we do now: 
we used to allow downloading a pre-concatenated nanoarrow.h/c to support 
installing from github when CMake wasn't installed, but now we have nightly 
builds and the concatenator is written in Python. We could now probably use 
pycparser to find declarations or definitions (pure Python is preferable 
because Windows).


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