On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 3:06 PM Andrew Lamb <al...@influxdata.com> wrote:
> > We have had separate releases / votes for Arrow Rust (and Arrow DataFusion) > and it has served us quite well. The version schemes have diverged > substantially from the monorepo (we are on version 51.0.0 in arrow-rs, for > example) and it doesn't seem to have caused any large confusion with users > > I think that versioning will require additional thinking for libraries like PyArrow, Java etc... For rust this is a non problem because there is no link to the C++ library, PyArrow instead is based on what the C++ library provides, so there is a direct link between the features provided by C++ in a specific version and the features provided in PyArrow at a specific version. More or less PyArrow 20 should have the same bug fixes that C++ 20 has, and diverging the two versions would lead to confusion easily. Probably major versions should match between C++ and PyArrow, but I guess we could have diverging minor and patch versions. Or at least patch versions given that a new minor version is usually cut for bug fixes too.
