On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 00:11, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
David Warde-Farley wrote:
As Robert's design document for the NPY format says, one option would be to implement a minimal subset of the HDF5 protocol *from scratch*
That would be really cool -- I wonder how hard it would be to implement just the current NPY features? Judging from this:
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/H5.format.html
It's far from trivial!
Yes. That's why I wrote the NPY format instead. I *did* do some due diligence before I designed a new binary format. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco