Developing with Archery

Archery is documented on the Arrow website:

• Daily development using Archery
• Using Archery and Crossbow
• Using Archery and Docker

Installing Archery

See the pages linked above for more details. As a general overview, Archery comes in a number of subpackages, each needing to be installed if you want to use the functionality of it:

• lint – lint (and in some cases auto-format) code in the Arrow repo To install: pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[lint]"
• benchmark – to run Arrow benchmarks using Archery To install: pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[benchmark]"
• docker – to run docker compose based tasks more easily To install: pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[docker]"
• release – release related helpers To install: pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[release]"
• crossbow – to trigger + interact with the crossbow build system To install: pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[crossbow]"
• crossbow-upload To install: pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[crossbow-upload]"

Additionally, if you would prefer to install everything at once, pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[all]" is an alias for all of the above subpackages.

For some prior art on benchmarking in Arrow, see this prototype.