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Antoine Pitrou commented on ARROW-6590: --------------------------------------- It depends whether {{ARROW_JSON}} means "only the JSON scanner" or "all JSON support". The "simple JSON" functions are used by a lot of unit tests, because they make it easy to instantiate test arrays. > [C++] Do not require ARROW_JSON=ON when ARROW_IPC=ON > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-6590 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6590 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: C++ > Reporter: Wes McKinney > Priority: Major > Fix For: 0.15.0 > > > arrow/CMakeLists.txt currently has > {code} > if(ARROW_IPC AND NOT ARROW_JSON) > message(FATAL_ERROR "JSON support is required for Arrow IPC") > endif() > {code} > Building the JSON scanner component should not be a pre-requisite of building > IPC support -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)