Fokko Driesprong

@yingying-chen-cko Thanks for raising this, and this looks like a bug indeed. > I believe this is because in `pyiceberg.manifest.DEFAULT_READ_VERSION` is set to 2 This is intentional since we handle...

Hey @smaheshwar-pltr Thanks for bringing this up. > I'm therefore wondering about "versioning" `Snapshot` similar to `TableMetadata`, so that V3 `TableMetadata` would contain a list of V3 `Snapshot`s. The problem...

@smaheshwar-pltr Are you interested in adding those fields?

Let's get this in, thanks @lawofcycles for working on this, and @amogh-jahagirdar and @rahil-c for the review!

@steveloughran Is this something we want to get in 1.17.0? See https://lists.apache.org/thread/g1cngnkzhjt86yt4dfl078yrplfmzcf5

FWIW, Iceberg Java also publishes nightly snapshots: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/iceberg/iceberg-core/ But it is hidden quite well for a reason :D I'm open to it. I'm not sure if a separate package is...

What would be your proposal? The [FileIO is an abstraction](https://tabular.io/blog/iceberg-fileio-cloud-native-tables/) layer to use different implementations for your needs. For example, fsspec is lightweight compared to Arrow and might be preferred...

Sorry for being late here, my mailbox is overflowing a bit. The earlier example of: ```python DATA_FILE_TYPE: Dict[int, StructType] ``` is wrong, and should be: ```python DATA_FILE_TYPE: Dict[TableVersion, StructType] ```...

I'll go ahead and close this issue since we have a `TypeAlias` today: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/blob/ccaa15cf8ac1eb1202256d17efc9cf9d20723d20/pyiceberg/typedef.py#L210 Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I think this is more pythonic than an Enum.

I think it is fine to add support for reading the `version-hint.txt`, but we should not produce it.