[jira] [Created] (ARROW-17891) [Docs][Python] Update and sync Win section of the developers/python page

["Alenka Frim (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Alenka Frim created ARROW-17891:
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             Summary: [Docs][Python] Update and sync Win section of the developers/python page
                 Key: ARROW-17891
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17891
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Documentation, Python
            Reporter: Alenka Frim
            Assignee: Alenka Frim


Some of the things that are missing/outdated:
 * {{ARROW_HOME}} should be same as in Linux&MacOs section (only {{dist}})
 * setting of the {{PATH}} variable is not needed as Python doesn't use it anymore in the dll search path (3.8+)
 * use Python 3.10
 * it seems that invoking cmake in Win is case sensitive as the following
{code:java}
cmake --build . --target INSTALL --config Release {code}
didn't work for me and this did:
{code:java}
cmake --build . --target install --config Release {code}
I see the same on [AppVeyor|https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/ci/appveyor-cpp-build.bat#L91]. 

I needed to set {{ARROW_STATIC=OFF}} to make the Arrow C++ build successful and I see the same in the [AppVeyor build|https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/ci/appveyor-cpp-build.bat#L61]. Not sure why this is needed, but it should also be added in the docs. 



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