[ARROW-7] Add Python library build toolchain

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15320
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 19/Feb/16 13:48
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:06
• Resolved: 07/Mar/16 22:42

Description

I will be working on a patch to make the initial Arrow C++ libarrow.so library callable from Cython (http://cython.org/) extensions. For the uninitiated, Cython is the modern "gold standard" for interoperability with C++ libraries. I have used it recently to create Kudu's Python client (https://github.com/apache/incubator-kudu/tree/master/python/kudu).

A significant amount of Python "glue code" will be needed to interoperate with pandas, NumPy, and other standard Python libraries (in addition to Python's built-in scalar data types), but these will be the subject of many follow up JIRAs.