From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: [new] databases/arrow 18.0.0
To: Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 10:10:35 +0000

On 2024/11/01 10:56, Landry Breuil wrote:
> hi,
> 
> following thrift, here's the port for the c++ part of arrow:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/cpp/README.md
> it provides the parquet library for https://parquet.apache.org/.
> 
> some open questions:
> - i've put the port in databases because for me its sort-of a database
>   format: "The universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for
> fast data interchange and in-memory analytics"
> 
> but it can go into devel or textproc, i'm not settled on it. devel is
> already a bit crowded...

databases sounds good

> - the toplevel in https://github.com/apache/arrow/ has zero build goo,
>   so from the same distfile one has to build by subdir (eg setting
> WRKDIST=${WRKDIR}/${DISTNAME}/cpp), hence the pkgname being arrow-cpp
> since i'm only interested in the c++ part.

shouldn't that be WRKSRC=${WRKDIST}/cpp?

> should i name the port databases/arrow-cpp ? databases/arrow/cpp in
> preparation for potential other ports for various bindings ?

databases/arrow/cpp sounds a good plan to me. common parts can be
factored in Makefile.inc later when we find out what the common parts
are :)

> i'm still struggling to make it build fine the json part that depends on
> rapidjson so for now this is commented out. will keep working on it, but
> right now i have enough for testing the geoparquet support in gdal.
> 
> feedback welcome ! oks too ofc :)
> 
> Landry