I think it's well within the right of an implementation to reject BE data (or non-native-endian), but if an implementation chooses to implement and maintain the endianness conversions, then it does not seem so bad to me.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 3:33 PM Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote: > > And yes, for those of you looking closely, I commented on ARROW-245 when it > was committed. I just forgot about it. > > It looks like I had mostly the same concerns then that I do now :) Now I'm > just more worried about format sprawl... > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 1:30 PM Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote: > > > What do you mean? The Endianness field (a Big|Little enum) was added 4 > >> years ago: > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-245 > > > > > > I didn't realize that was done, my bad. Good example of format rot from my > > pov. > > > > > >
