NeXus C++ API

[A.Buteau]

  Dear Brian,

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Brian Tieman wrote:

> To all,
> 
> I have a C++ API based on NAPI which I've been using for several years now.  The
> API I've created hides the NAPI API almost entirely and allows for a much simpler
> (in my mind anyway) interface to the data.  There is a class wrappered around NAPI
> in the method Mark suggests and this class is the basis to create other classes
> which do closely follow groups, datasets (fields in my naming scheme) and
> attributes.

I agree with your design of the NexusBox !!
We are using almost the same , event if I must say that our development 
is not ready to be shared !!


> 4)  Nexus does not appear to be catching on as a file protocol in the areas where
> I actively develop.  We will likely keep my API, but we may abandon the efforts to
> be Nexus compliant altogether.
>
Mark wrote:  
>  This is interesting. I feel that everybody who is doing new things
>  is using NeXus. 
  
  I 'm now working on the SOLEIL project (new 3rd generation french synchrotron : http: 
//www.soleil.u-psud.fr), and I hope that I'll be able to convince scientists to use this data format. 
  
  A common data format is a collective effort. I think that for now NeXus has still not reach 
  the critical threshold, but it has real strenghts. Please don't give up now unless you have good reasons. 
  I think the people who developped Nexus has already done a good job. 
  What is currently missing is a large diffusion of the format to benefit from 
  a community effect in term of tools, and utilities.