[ARROW-1669] [C++] Consider adding Abseil (Google C++11 standard library extensions) to toolchain

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17677
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 12/Oct/17 22:13
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:16
• Resolved: 18/Sep/19 04:13

Description

Google has released a library of C++11-compliant extensions to the STL that may help make a lot of Arrow code simpler:

https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/

This code is not header-only and so would require some effort to add to the toolchain at the moment since it only supports the Bazel build system

Issue Links

• is blocked by: ARROW-2461 [Python] Build wheels for manylinux2010 tag
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2501