[ARROW-1289] [Python] Add PYARROW_BUILD_PLASMA option like Parquet

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17247
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 27/Jul/17 19:04
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:13
• Resolved: 28/Jul/17 16:11

Description

I found in some routine testing that if I have build C++ libraries with Plasma but do not pass --with-plasma or set PYARROW_WITH_PLASMA env variable, that the test suite will fail. We should make this optional extension behave like the Parquet extension