Andrew Lamb created ARROW-11214:
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Summary: [Rust] [DataFusion] Add optional rust features for
functions in library to keep dependencies down
Key: ARROW-11214
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11214
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Rust - DataFusion
Reporter: Andrew Lamb
As we expand the numbers of functions available in DataFusion, DataFusion will
likely pick up additional third-party dependencies. In general, I think it
would be a nice feature for DataFusion to allow users more fine grained
control over the features that they wanted to use (and pay the subsequently
higher compilation / link time (and binary size) cost. At the moment, with a
single codebase and no feature flags, everyone's compile time and binary size
will increase even if they don't use a specific set of features.
It seems to me like we might want to start offering a way to keep the number of
required dependencies of DataFusion down. For example, in the case of
https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9139, we could potentially put the use of
crypto functions behind a feature flag. Users of DataFusion could then pick a
subset of features like "core" and "func-datetime" and "func-crypto" to have
more control over the dependencies they pulled in
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