[NeXus-committee] [Nexus] NAPI future

V. Armando Solé sole at esrf.fr
Thu Oct 22 16:03:24 BST 2020


Dear all,

The ESRF does not use the NAPI either.

Best regards,

Armando
On 22/10/2020 16:49, Chang, Peter (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI) via NeXus wrote:
> Dear Mark and others,
>
> Diamond Light Source does not use the NAPI.
>
> Best regards,
>  Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> [...]
> ## Questions
>
> Abandoning the support for NAPI for bugfix or compatibility with future linux/library/compiler versions will cause me problems at the following level:
>
> [] Critical: I am using NAPI in critical data acquisition or data reduction/analysis software
> [] Major: important applications may not be usable at some future date
> [] Minor: inconvenience, I have alternatives/can live with this
> [x] None: either I am not using NAPI, or I have copies of all the dependencies that I build/maintain myself
>
> [] I want the NIAC to continue developing NAPI and make it support more HDF5 features. Please list the
>  HDF5 feature you miss in NAPI.
>
> Which of the NAPI file format bindings do you use:
>
> [] HDF4
> [] HDF5
> [] XML
>
> Which of the NAPI language bindings do you use?
>
> [] ANSI-C
> [] Fortran
> [] C++
> [] Java
> [] IDL
> [] Swig generated bindings to Tcl, perl, ...
>
> Which of the NAPI utilities do you use?
>
> [] NXbrowse
> [] NXingest
> [] NXtranslate
> [] NXconvert
> [] NXdump
> [] NXsummary
>
> General
>
> [] I am willing to help maintain NAPI
>
>
> The NeXus validator: cnxvalidate, is missing in this list. This is a separate product to NAPI and the NIAC is committed to maintaining it. It uses the HDF5 API directly rather than NAPI.
>
> Thank you for your time filling in this questionnaire!
>
> Please send replies to  nexus-committee at nexusformat.org
>
> If you have further concerns or comments regarding the NAPI, please inform your NIAC representative - these are listed at  https://www.nexusformat.org/NIAC.html
>
> If your facility is using NeXus, but has no representation on the NIAC, please consider joining the NIAC.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>   Freddie Akeroyd
>   Mark Koennecke
>   on behalf of the NIAC
>
>
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