[Nexus] NAPI future
Carlos Pascual-Izarra
cpascual at cells.es
Thu Oct 22 18:54:42 BST 2020
Dear all,
In ALBA there arestill a few old codes using the NAPI but we can
totally replace them to using native HDF5 libs or bindings. Anyway, I
answered the questionnaire (below)
Cheers,
Carlos
On 10/22/20 4:08 PM, Koennecke Mark (PSI) via NeXus 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
> [x] Minor: inconvenience, I have alternatives/can live with this
> [] 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.
>
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Computing Division
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