Re: [h5md-user] Update

[Konrad Hinsen]

Peter Colberg writes:

 > It would probably be reasonable to view the unit strings as a data
 > format, and less as a display format; i.e. choose a single format
 > based on ASCII, with a single representation of each unit. The data
 > format can be converted to a display format using udunits2.

+1

 > > The other one is that is may frighten potential users/developers?

+1

 > I am more frightened of all the published work that is based on
 > simulations that are based on non-peer-reviewed source code ;-).

+1

No contradiction here: different people are frightened by different
things ;-)

 > At this point, it seems better not to finalize the specification of
 > the units module. We could keep it at a version 0.*, and add a note
 > which clarifies that this is a preliminary version. To finalize the
 > units module, we need proof of some applications; both for writing
 > (simulation programs) and reading (analysis programs).

+1

That makes +4 in total :-)

Konrad.
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