Feature request: Automatically infer Fletcher dtype to an existing DataFrame

[caniko]

A function that automatically infers Fletcher dtype to an existing DataFrame. This function would subsume pandas.DataFrame.convert_dtypes, link.

Would it be correct that Fletcher dtype should be applied to every object dtype?

[xhochy]

This project has been archived as development has ceased around 2021.
With the support of Apache Arrow-backed extension arrays in pandas, the major goal of this project has been fulfilled.