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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear all, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Canadian Light Source does not use the NAPI<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">-Russ Berg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> ## Questions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Abandoning the support for NAPI for bugfix or compatibility with future linux/library/compiler versions will cause me problems at the following level:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] Critical: I am using NAPI in critical data acquisition or data reduction/analysis software
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] Major: important applications may not be usable at some future date
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] Minor: inconvenience, I have alternatives/can live with this
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> [x] None: either i am not using NAPI, or I have copies of all the dependencies that I build/maintain myself<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] I want the NIAC to continue developing NAPI and make it support more HDF5 features. Please list the HDF5 feature you miss in NAPI.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Which of the NAPI file format bindings do you use:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] HDF4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] HDF5<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] XML<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Which of the NAPI language bindings do you use?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] ANSI-C<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] Fortran<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] C++<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] Java<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] IDL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] Swig generated bindings to Tcl, perl, ...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Which of the NAPI utilities do you use?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] NXbrowse<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] NXingest<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] NXtranslate<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] NXconvert<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] NXdump<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] NXsummary<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> General<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [] I am willing to help maintain NAPI<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Please send replies to <a href="mailto:nexus-committee@nexusformat.org">
nexus-committee@nexusformat.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> If you have further concerns or comments regarding the NAPI, please
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> inform your NIAC representative - these are listed at <o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <a href="https://www.nexusformat.org/NIAC.html">https://www.nexusformat.org/NIAC.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> If your facility is using NeXus, but has no representation on the NIAC, please consider joining the NIAC.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Freddie Akeroyd<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Mark Koennecke<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> on behalf of the NIAC<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> _______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> NeXus mailing list<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <a href="mailto:NeXus@nexusformat.org">NeXus@nexusformat.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <a href="https://lists.nexusformat.org/mailman/listinfo/nexus">
https://lists.nexusformat.org/mailman/listinfo/nexus</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NeXus-committee mailing list<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:NeXus-committee@nexusformat.org">NeXus-committee@nexusformat.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://lists.nexusformat.org/mailman/listinfo/nexus-committee">https://lists.nexusformat.org/mailman/listinfo/nexus-committee</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Russ Berg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Control Systems Analyst<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Canadian Light Source Inc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.lightsource.ca"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.lightsource.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ph: 306.657.3572<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></p>
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