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Antoine Pitrou commented on ARROW-6613:
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I've started looking into this. There's some non-trivial Windows-specific code
in boost::filesystem to handle reparse points and symlinks. It feels a bit
counter-productive to copy/paste it without knowing exactly what it does.
> [C++] Remove dependency on boost::filesystem
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> Key: ARROW-6613
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6613
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.0.0
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> See ARROW-2196 for details.
> boost::filesystem should not be required for base functionality at least
> (including filesystems, probably).
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