[ARROW-189] C++: Use ExternalProject to build thirdparty dependencies

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15538
• Assignee: Leif Mortenson
• Reporter: Uwe Korn
• Created: 05/May/16 11:20
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:07
• Resolved: 11/Oct/16 18:00

Description

My main incentive here is that I want to have a Python sdist that can be installed with a simple `pip install ./dist/pyarrow.tar.gz` (so we could provide source distributions on PyPI). This will still let the install of pyarrow depend on CMake but at least we would have the ability of a source distribution.