Temporarily drop support for Avro file format

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• Temporarily drop support for Avro file format

Deprecated

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Description

Avro file format will come back to Flow PHP at some point, however, due to the large amount of items in backlog we can't provide any ETA at this point

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Flow PHP - Benchmarks

^{_{Results of the benchmarks from this PR are compared with the results from 1.x branch.}}

Extractors

+-----------------------+-------------------+------+-----+------------------+------------------+-----------------+
| benchmark             | subject           | revs | its | mem_peak         | mode             | rstdev          |
+-----------------------+-------------------+------+-----+------------------+------------------+-----------------+
| CSVExtractorBench     | bench_extract_10k | 1    | 3   | 5.175mb -0.08%   | 336.896ms +0.27% | ±0.53% +278.03% |
| JsonExtractorBench    | bench_extract_10k | 1    | 3   | 5.208mb -0.08%   | 1.105s +3.47%    | ±2.13% -6.23%   |
| ParquetExtractorBench | bench_extract_10k | 1    | 3   | 135.881mb -0.00% | 748.744ms -0.67% | ±0.77% -55.43%  |
| TextExtractorBench    | bench_extract_10k | 1    | 3   | 4.965mb -0.08%   | 36.397ms +1.46%  | ±1.69% +163.48% |
| XmlExtractorBench     | bench_extract_10k | 1    | 3   | 4.971mb -0.08%   | 436.817ms +0.81% | ±0.48% -25.29%  |
+-----------------------+-------------------+------+-----+------------------+------------------+-----------------+

Transformers

+-----------------------------+--------------------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+----------------+
| benchmark                   | subject                  | revs | its | mem_peak         | mode            | rstdev         |
+-----------------------------+--------------------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+----------------+
| RenameEntryTransformerBench | bench_transform_10k_rows | 1    | 3   | 116.272mb -0.00% | 58.840ms -1.09% | ±0.60% -54.99% |
+-----------------------------+--------------------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+----------------+

Loaders

+--------------------+----------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| benchmark          | subject        | revs | its | mem_peak         | mode            | rstdev          |
+--------------------+----------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| CSVLoaderBench     | bench_load_10k | 1    | 3   | 55.254mb -0.01%  | 69.492ms +2.38% | ±1.23% +287.54% |
| JsonLoaderBench    | bench_load_10k | 1    | 3   | 107.628mb -0.00% | 50.398ms -1.84% | ±0.27% -56.69%  |
| ParquetLoaderBench | bench_load_10k | 1    | 3   | 227.051mb -0.00% | 1.405s -0.06%   | ±0.83% +236.39% |
| TextLoaderBench    | bench_load_10k | 1    | 3   | 18.009mb -0.02%  | 38.311ms -1.46% | ±0.45% +66.32%  |
+--------------------+----------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+-----------------+

Building Blocks

+-------------------------+----------------------------+------+-----+------------------+------------------+-----------------+
| benchmark               | subject                    | revs | its | mem_peak         | mode             | rstdev          |
+-------------------------+----------------------------+------+-----+------------------+------------------+-----------------+
| NativeEntryFactoryBench | bench_entry_factory        | 1    | 3   | 116.821mb -0.00% | 492.932ms -2.87% | ±1.49% -40.00%  |
| NativeEntryFactoryBench | bench_entry_factory        | 1    | 3   | 60.299mb -0.01%  | 262.868ms +4.30% | ±3.72% +211.86% |
| NativeEntryFactoryBench | bench_entry_factory        | 1    | 3   | 15.233mb -0.03%  | 52.504ms -3.26%  | ±1.67% -8.91%   |
| TypeDetectorBench       | bench_type_detector        | 1    | 3   | 60.000mb -0.01%  | 437.561ms +1.25% | ±1.37% +103.30% |
| TypeDetectorBench       | bench_type_detector        | 1    | 3   | 14.539mb -0.03%  | 86.139ms -0.74%  | ±3.15% +743.06% |
| RowsBench               | bench_chunk_10_on_10k      | 2    | 3   | 87.091mb -0.00%  | 3.344ms -7.53%   | ±1.28% -56.72%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_diff_left_1k_on_10k  | 2    | 3   | 102.689mb -0.00% | 185.760ms -0.79% | ±0.67% -17.75%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_diff_right_1k_on_10k | 2    | 3   | 85.409mb -0.00%  | 18.485ms -2.46%  | ±0.37% -63.93%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_drop_1k_on_10k       | 2    | 3   | 88.331mb -0.00%  | 1.693ms -10.51%  | ±2.66% -1.60%   |
| RowsBench               | bench_drop_right_1k_on_10k | 2    | 3   | 88.331mb -0.00%  | 1.689ms -15.57%  | ±3.19% +36.18%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_entries_on_10k       | 2    | 3   | 85.443mb -0.00%  | 2.713ms -11.53%  | ±2.57% -0.14%   |
| RowsBench               | bench_filter_on_10k        | 2    | 3   | 85.972mb -0.00%  | 17.614ms +7.55%  | ±1.27% -18.40%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_find_on_10k          | 2    | 3   | 85.972mb -0.00%  | 17.592ms +2.63%  | ±1.94% +64.07%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_find_one_on_10k      | 10   | 3   | 83.876mb -0.00%  | 1.506μs -16.05%  | ±3.07% +15.22%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_first_on_10k         | 10   | 3   | 83.876mb -0.00%  | 0.300μs 0.00%    | ±0.00% 0.00%    |
| RowsBench               | bench_flat_map_on_1k       | 2    | 3   | 93.226mb -0.00%  | 12.186ms -1.13%  | ±0.20% -63.24%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_map_on_10k           | 2    | 3   | 122.597mb -0.00% | 60.588ms -1.85%  | ±0.56% +7.09%   |
| RowsBench               | bench_merge_1k_on_10k      | 2    | 3   | 86.492mb -0.00%  | 1.213ms -23.22%  | ±0.50% -85.61%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_partition_by_on_10k  | 2    | 3   | 89.838mb -0.00%  | 61.489ms -4.93%  | ±3.04% +263.31% |
| RowsBench               | bench_remove_on_10k        | 2    | 3   | 88.593mb -0.00%  | 4.024ms -8.34%   | ±0.25% -86.71%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_sort_asc_on_1k       | 2    | 3   | 84.019mb -0.00%  | 39.143ms -2.27%  | ±0.30% -63.60%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_sort_by_on_1k        | 2    | 3   | 84.020mb -0.00%  | 38.966ms -3.37%  | ±0.23% -56.75%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_sort_desc_on_1k      | 2    | 3   | 84.019mb -0.00%  | 39.168ms -2.26%  | ±0.90% -68.97%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_sort_entries_on_1k   | 2    | 3   | 86.317mb -0.00%  | 7.303ms -1.37%   | ±0.21% -65.72%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_sort_on_1k           | 2    | 3   | 83.876mb -0.00%  | 28.545ms -1.70%  | ±0.56% -57.59%  |
| RowsBench               | bench_take_1k_on_10k       | 10   | 3   | 83.876mb -0.00%  | 13.466μs -0.94%  | ±3.15% +807.60% |
| RowsBench               | bench_take_right_1k_on_10k | 10   | 3   | 83.876mb -0.00%  | 15.483μs -5.66%  | ±1.38% +141.86% |
| RowsBench               | bench_unique_on_1k         | 2    | 3   | 102.690mb -0.00% | 194.853ms +1.22% | ±1.90% +5.61%   |
+-------------------------+----------------------------+------+-----+------------------+------------------+-----------------+