{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/shoyer/h5netcdf/issues/1","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/shoyer/h5netcdf/issues/1/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/shoyer/h5netcdf/issues/1/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/shoyer/h5netcdf/issues/1/events","html_url":"https://github.com/shoyer/h5netcdf/issues/1","id":67089837,"number":1,"title":"Add a bit of doc on motivation for this package","user":{"login":"rsignell-usgs","id":1872600,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1872600?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs","html_url":"https://github.com/rsignell-usgs","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-04-08T09:36:16Z","updated_at":"2015-04-08T17:33:06Z","closed_at":null,"body":"It would be great to have a bit of info on the Readme.md about the motivation for this package, and perhaps what the perceived advantages and disadvantages are (or could be) relative to other netcdf packages. "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/shoyer/h5netcdf/issues/comments/90982561","html_url":"https://github.com/shoyer/h5netcdf/issues/1#issuecomment-90982561","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/shoyer/h5netcdf/issues/1","id":90982561,"user":{"login":"shoyer","id":1217238,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1217238?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/shoyer","html_url":"https://github.com/shoyer","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shoyer/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shoyer/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shoyer/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shoyer/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shoyer/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shoyer/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shoyer/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shoyer/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shoyer/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-08T17:33:06Z","updated_at":"2015-04-08T17:33:06Z","body":"This is a good idea :).\r\n\r\nSome motivations (which I'll elaborate on in the README):\r\n\r\n- To prove it could be done (it seemed like an obvious thing to do) and that it's not actually that hard.\r\n- We've also seen occasional reports of better performance with h5py than netCDF4-python that I wanted to be able to verify.\r\n- h5py seems to have thought through multi-threading pretty carefully, so this in particular seems like a case where things could make a difference. I've started to care about this because I recently hooked up a multi-threaded backend to xray ([dask](http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2015/02/13/Towards-OOC-Slicing-and-Stacking/))\r\n- It's one less massive binary dependency (netCDF C). Anecdotally, HDF5 users seem to be a unexcited switching to netCDF -- hopefully this will convince them that they are really the same thing!\r\n- Side-stepping the netCDF C library (and Cython bindings to it) gives us an easier way to identify the source of performance issues and bugs."}}