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[Wes McKinney](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5202?focusedCommentId=16868177) / @wesm: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32469953/why-is-cmake-designed-so-that-it-removes-runtime-path-when-installing

[Antoine Pitrou](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5327?focusedCommentId=17394027) / @pitrou: I'm unsure we have found a real need for this. What do you think?

[Antoine Pitrou](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5331?focusedCommentId=16841050) / @pitrou: One counter-argument against this is that people might want to send something else than record batches (e.g. tensors), or perhaps even a mixed stream of different...

[David Li](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5331?focusedCommentId=16841254) / @lidavidm: I think that complicates the mental model, and at least for tensors, since they're treated entirely separately, they should have their own method (if we want...

[Wes McKinney](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5331?focusedCommentId=16841372) / @wesm: It might be worth putting in some thought now about how to handle generic streams of encapsulated IPC messages in the Flight protocol. Of course, the...

[Antoine Pitrou](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5331?focusedCommentId=16855776) / @pitrou: I had overlooked that the `FlightDescriptor` is unused where `FlightDataStream` is concerned. `FlightDataStream` is used for the server's `DoGet` implementation only. So `RecordBatchStream` should already be...

[Antoine Pitrou](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5141?focusedCommentId=16812665) / @pitrou: @fsaintjacques

[Wes McKinney](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5141?focusedCommentId=16913745) / @wesm: Can we move the data examples to `arrow/testing/example_data.h` or something?

[Miki Tebeka](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-488?focusedCommentId=15903199) / @tebeka: Is the dtype still integer? I see that Pandas changes the dtype once you add a nan: ``` In [1]: import pandas as pd In [2]:...

[Wes McKinney](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-488?focusedCommentId=15903242) / @wesm: @tebeka the pandas behavior is the motivation for this JIRA Because pandas implicitly converts from integer to float when introducing null values, the task in this...