[ARROW-282] Make parquet-cpp an optional dependency of pyarrow

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15651
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Uwe Korn
• Created: 01/Sep/16 16:59
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:07
• Resolved: 29/Aug/22 14:14

Description

Currently pyarrow hard depends on the parquet support of arrow-cpp. This should be an optional dependency.

As there is no parquet-cpp release, this currently also blocks the Arrow 0.1 release.

Issue Links

• blocks: ARROW-272 Arrow release 0.1