On 3/25/24 7:17 PM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
So this is a plea for anyone looking for something really helpful to
do: it would be great to have a group of developers finally package
this! There was some initial work done (see the RFP bug report for
details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970021),
but that is fairly old now. As Apache Arrow supports numerous
languages, it may well benefit from having a group of developers with
different areas of expertise to build it. (Or perhaps it would make
more sense to split the upstream source into a collection of different
Debian source packages for the different supported languages. I don't
know.) Unfortunately I don't have the capacity to devote any time to
it myself.
Thanks in advance for anyone who can step forward for this!
As someone from the Debian-GIS community, I would also be very interested in
this!
The Apache Arrow C++ library is one of the dependencies to make GDAL/OGR able
to read/write (geo)parquet files, a data format with a lot traction in the geo
community [0]. Thereby making it possible for QGIS to handle those (on Debian).
[0]
https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2023/09/duckdb-the-indispensable-geospatial-tool-you-didnt-know-you-were-missing/
Regards,
Richard Duivenvoorde
