[NeXus-committee] [EXTERNAL] Re: [Nexus] NAPI future

[Godoy, William]

At ORNL we don't actively use the NAPI directly, but only as a Mantid dependency for HDF5 files.

Thanks,
William 

On 10/22/20, 10:13 AM, "NeXus-committee on behalf of Pete Jemian via NeXus-committee" <nexus-committee-bounces at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk on behalf of nexus-committee at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> wrote:


    > ## 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
    > [X] HDF5
    > [] XML
    > 
    > Which of the NAPI language bindings do you use?
    > 
    > [X] 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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