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Zeitsperre
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Co-authored-by: Trevor James Smith <[email protected]>
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| The HDF Group have provided good documentation for the HDF5 format, but while there are communities of developers beyond those of the HDF Group, recent events suggest that given most of those developers and their existing funding are based in the USA, some spreading of risk would be desirable. | ||
| To that end, a pure Python code covering the core HDF5 features of interest to the target scientific community, which is relatively small and maintained by an international constituency provides some assurance that the community can maintain HDF5 access for the foreseeable future. | ||
| A pure Python code also makes it easier to develop scripts which can work around data and metadata corruption should they occur, and has the additional advantage of being able to be deployed in resource or operating-system constrained environments (such as on mobile). | ||
| The HDF Group have provided good documentation for the HDF5 format, but while there are communities of developers beyond those of the HDF Group, recent events suggest that given most of those developers and their existing funding are based in the USA, and some spreading of risk would be desirable. |
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the new "and" doesn't make sense here, if we need a new word, we should "so"
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Nah, even "so" doesn't make sense :-)
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yes, you are right - sorry.
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@valeriupredoi Please go ahead and merge this, but can you then fix the one word that I have highlighted (remove an "and") (I think it's easier to do this than request a change to the pull request for such a trivial change.
…add country to Astral Software Inc., both USA
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attn: @bnlawrence - @danielskatz very many thanks for your suggestions! I have changed affiliation 8 accordingly, and also added a country for Astral Software Inc. (correct spelling too) in 6aa7b6a |
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