From 4c051409b6421c6ba63eae1cfe8075f51c082eaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Moritz <pcmoritz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:25:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] define entry point for the plasma store

---
 python/pyarrow/__init__.py | 10 ++++++++++
 python/setup.py            |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/python/pyarrow/__init__.py b/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
index 8d4a214ba26..fbdc8cf1827 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
@@ -105,6 +105,16 @@
 
 localfs = LocalFileSystem.get_instance()
 
+# Entry point for starting the plasma store
+
+def start_plasma_store():
+    import os
+    import pyarrow
+    import subprocess
+    import sys
+    plasma_store_executable = os.path.join(pyarrow.__path__[0], "plasma_store")
+    process = subprocess.Popen([plasma_store_executable] + sys.argv[1:])
+    process.wait()
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # 0.4.0 deprecations
diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index ebf28cc64e9..f4ba7da7eba 100644
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -382,6 +382,11 @@ def has_ext_modules(foo):
         'clean': clean,
         'build_ext': build_ext
     },
+    entry_points = {
+        'console_scripts': [
+            'plasma_store = pyarrow:start_plasma_store'
+        ]
+    },
     use_scm_version={"root": "..", "relative_to": __file__},
     setup_requires=['setuptools_scm', 'cython >= 0.23'],
     install_requires=['numpy >= 1.10', 'six >= 1.0.0'],

From eddc487ac9599c16d348963f9bd2d0dab288db6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Moritz <pcmoritz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:47:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] make plasma store entry point private

---
 python/pyarrow/__init__.py | 8 +++++++-
 python/setup.py            | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/pyarrow/__init__.py b/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
index fbdc8cf1827..d0348b43c50 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
@@ -107,7 +107,13 @@
 
 # Entry point for starting the plasma store
 
-def start_plasma_store():
+def _plasma_store_entry_point():
+    """Entry point for starting the plasma store.
+
+    This can be used by invoking e. g. ``plasma_store -s /tmp/plasma -m 1000000000``
+    from the command line and will start the plasma_store executable with the
+    given arguments.
+    """
     import os
     import pyarrow
     import subprocess
diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index f4ba7da7eba..4657da0bf86 100644
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ def has_ext_modules(foo):
     },
     entry_points = {
         'console_scripts': [
-            'plasma_store = pyarrow:start_plasma_store'
+            'plasma_store = pyarrow:_plasma_store_entry_point'
         ]
     },
     use_scm_version={"root": "..", "relative_to": __file__},