[ARROW-256] Add versioning to the arrow spec.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Component/s: Format
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15597
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Julien Le Dem
• Created: 10/Aug/16 22:05
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:07
• Resolved: 09/Sep/16 04:02

Description

We should add a version field that describes the version of the spec.
This will allow creating a spec v2 and schema negotiation between implementers that may not be using the same version of the spec.