Even though this would be a big effort, maybe we should just try to be consistent and move towards deprecating the term entirely as this is a recurring confusion that will continue to happen.
El jue, 9 ene 2025 a las 3:32, Weston Pace (<weston.p...@gmail.com>) escribió: > The link Aldrin sent is correct. To help connect the dots I'll point out > this quote: > > > Note that files created with this format are sometimes called “Feather > V2” or > > with the “.feather” extension, the name and the extension derived from > > “Feather (V1)”, which was a proof of concept early in the Arrow project > for > > language-agnostic fast data frame storage for Python (pandas) and R. > > Feather (V1) no longer exists and the terms "feather" and "IPC file / > stream format" are > essentially synonymous. Some tools do continue to use the term "feather" > while others > have abandoned it completely or never started using it. > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM Aldrin <octalene....@pm.me> wrote: > >> I think [1] is what you're looking for. >> >> [1]: https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#ipc-file-format >> >> >> >> >> >> # ------------------------------ >> >> # Aldrin >> >> >> https://github.com/drin/ >> >> https://gitlab.com/octalene >> >> https://keybase.io/octalene >> >> >> On Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 at 12:29, Andrew Bell < >> andrew.bell...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> >> > Is there a specification for the Feather file format? All I can find >> > is https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/feather.html, which is >> > insufficient to exactly describe the format. >> > >> >> > Thanks, >> > >> >> > -- >> > Andrew Bell >> > andrew.bell...@gmail.com > >
