[PARQUET-1306] [C++] Improve code reuse and reduce redundancy between Arrow and Parquet C++ build systems

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: cpp-4.0.0
• Component/s: parquet-cpp
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 21/May/18 23:04
• Updated: 12/Nov/18 22:03
• Resolved: 12/Nov/18 22:03

Description

I would like to see if it's possible to modularize the build system in Apache Arrow sufficiently to use it as a git submodule dependency of parquet-cpp. Most of the build system would therefore live in Apache Arrow (which is already a hard build dependency for Parquet).

In an ideal world, the Parquet codebase would live in a common monorepo with the Arrow codebase, but this might hopefully be the next best thing