hi Dan See https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0be397a5f901b9dc8787a7dbcb0a34c9ed60ad07ff1e3f064d418a98%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E. There is an experimental implementation in C++ which is being used for "Feather V2"
The Arrow specification does include a "file" format -- this is exactly what "Feather V2" is using https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/docs/source/format/Columnar.rst#ipc-file-format - Wes On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:20 PM Daniel Nugent <[email protected]> wrote: > > Was just reading the 0.17 release notes (congratulations to the maintainers, > btw), and was wondering if there could be some clarification on the language > about file formats. > > The notes mention that the compression support available for Feather 2 will > be formalized in the Arrow format at a later time. > > Does that mean that they will be formalized for in-memory and on the wire > Arrow messages? Or that there will be another, separate from Feather 2, > on-disk representation for Arrow called “Arrow file format” or something > along those lines? > > Thanks, > > -Dan Nugent
