[jira] [Created] (ARROW-8998) [Python] Make NumPy an optional runtime dependency

["Wes McKinney (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Wes McKinney created ARROW-8998:
-----------------------------------

             Summary: [Python] Make NumPy an optional runtime dependency
                 Key: ARROW-8998
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8998
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Python
            Reporter: Wes McKinney


Since in the relatively near future, one will be able to do non-trivial analytical operations and query processing natively on Arrow data structures through pyarrow, it does not make sense to require users to always install NumPy when that install pyarrow. I propose to split the NumPy-depending parts of libarrow_python into a libarrow_numpy (which also must be bundled) and moving this part of the codebase into a separate Cython module.

This refactoring should be relatively painless though there may be a number of packaging details to chase up since this would introduce a new shared library to be installed in various packaging targets. 



--
This message was sent by Atlassian Jira
(v8.3.4#803005)