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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-17:
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So my current feeling is that we should leave single-float as it is, included.
Implementing it through a standard library makes it a second class citizen,
unless we mandate support for the standard library, which is equivalent to
including it as a primitive. In many environments where Avro will be used,
single-float is a first-class citizen, and in those where it is not, it can be
converted to and from a double reasonably.
If no significant objections arise in the next few days, I will close this as
"won't fix".
> 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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