Congrats! On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 4:12 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is great news! Congrats to everyone who worked on this to make it > possible. I know that the cross-endianness question was something that > came up periodically (even though BE systems are increasingly exotic > nowadays) so it's great that we now have a robust answer > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 8:48 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to announce that we have just merged > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7507, which implements - on the C++ > > side - endianness conversion when reading IPC data with non-native > > endianness. > > > > This means that IPC and Flight communication using Arrow C++ should be > > possible between systems with different native endiannesses. This > > feature is experimental for now: there are basic integration tests, but > > it should be exercised a bit more before we declare it stable. > > > > We've also added an entry in the feature compatibility matrix: > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/docs/source/status.rst#ipc-format > > > > Regards > > > > Antoine. >
