[C] Minimalist ANSI C / C99 implementation of Arrow data structures and IPC

[asfimport]

This is an umbrella tracking JIRA for creating a small self-contained C implementation of Arrow. This purpose of this library would be compactness and portability, for embedded settings or for FFI in languages that have a harder time binding to C+. The C library could also grow wrapper support for the C+ library to expose more complicated functionality where we don't necessarily want multiple implementations

Reporter: Wes McKinney / @wesm

Related issues:

• [C] Minimalistic C library implementing Arrow data structures, IPC read/write (is duplicated by)

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[asfimport]

Brian Bowman:
I’m out of the office for vacation, followed by the SAS Winter Holiday until Tuesay January 2nd 2018.

-Brian

On Nov 23, 2017, at 1:30 PM, Wes McKinney (JIRA) jira@apache.org wrote:

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Wes McKinney created ARROW-1851:

        Summary: [C] Minimalist ANSI C / C99 implementation of Arrow data structures and IPC
            Key: ARROW-1851
            URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1851
        Project: Apache Arrow
     Issue Type: New Feature
     Components: C
       Reporter: Wes McKinney

This is an umbrella tracking JIRA for creating a small self-contained C implementation of Arrow. This purpose of this library would be compactness and portability, for embedded settings or for FFI in languages that have a harder time binding to C+. The C library could also grow wrapper support for the C+ library to expose more complicated functionality where we don't necessarily want multiple implementations

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[asfimport]

Antoine Pitrou / @pitrou:
I don't think this is likely to happen any soon. Should we close as Won't Fix?

[asfimport]

Wes McKinney / @wesm:
I still see it as an aspirational goal. Let's leave it open and maybe someone will pick it up

[jorisvandenbossche]

This is now implemented as the nanoarrow C library? cc @paleolimbot

[paleolimbot]

Thanks for flagging...I think nanoarrow covers all of what was mentioned here. I do explicitly test C99 but haven't looked into an explicit ANSI check.