Hi All:
Like I believe many researchers, more and more I am using a combination of R
and Python, and I access netcdf files (or the remote equivalent) in these
programs. For R I use the very nice ncdf4 package and for python the
netcdf4-python package. My comment is that ncdf4 is maintained by the good
graces of David Pierce at UCSD and the python package by the good graces of
Jeff Whitaker there in Boulder. These are wonderful packages, but what if for
some reason these two individuals are no longer able to maintain them?
I notice that the python package is now at the more general netcdf github site
- does this mean that Unidata has officially picked up this package and will
support it even if Jeff is unable to? And what is the process for at least
having Unidata consider picking up a package officially? I have more and more
code depending on ncdf4 (thanks Dave!) and if you want there is presently a
"single point of failure".
Basically just throwing this out for discussion. But I would be in a good deal
of hurt right now if either of those packages went away.
Thanks,
-Roy
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