[ARROW-4568] [C++] Add version macros to headers

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21114
• Assignee: Uwe Korn
• Reporter: Lawrence Chan
• Created: 14/Feb/19 07:15
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:34
• Resolved: 20/Mar/19 02:30

Description

It would be useful to have compile-time macros in the headers specifying the major/minor/patch versions, so that users can more easily maintain code that can be built with a range of arrow versions.

Other nice-to-haves:

• Maybe a "combiner" func that basically spits out the value as an easy to compare integer e.g. 12000 for 0.12.0 or something.
• Git hash

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3980