[ARROW-11870] [Dev] Automatically run merge script in venv

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Developer Tools
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/27713
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 05/Mar/21 11:14
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:22
• Resolved: 09/Mar/21 12:17

Description

Running the merge script needs some additional boilerplate for people who don't already use a Conda environment or similar.

We could provide a wrapper script dev/merge_arrow_pr.sh that:
1) checks if a virtual env dev/.venv exists
2) if not, creates it and installs the required dependencies
3) runs the Python merge script in the virtual env

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9637