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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-17:
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> perhaps removing it now isn't required, since we can back-compatibly
> re-define it with a standard library...
I take that back. For back-compatibily, we'd want the standard library
definitions to always be included in the schema stored in files and sent over
the wire: a runtime should only have to know about the primitives and compound
types. So having "float" without a definition in a data file wouldn't let us
later remove this as a primitve and replace it in runtimes by a standard
library.
> remove single float type
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>
> Key: AVRO-17
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-17
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: spec
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Fix For: 1.0
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> Python and Thrift do not support a 32-bit single float type, nor do many
> applications use this type, so, for better compatibility, we can remove it
> from Avro.
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