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

["Joris Van den Bossche (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Joris Van den Bossche updated ARROW-8998:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 6.0.0)
                   7.0.0

> [Python] Make NumPy an optional runtime dependency
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>                 Key: ARROW-8998
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8998
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Python
>            Reporter: Wes McKinney
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 7.0.0
>
>
> 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 they 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. 



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