Edward Hartnett

I have to work on this PR a bit longer so I have turned it into a draft PR. Once I get it fully sorted out I will mark this...

Btw I am also testing with hdf5 1.13.1 and everything seems to be working...

I don't want to get into the idea of just passing a void pointer and it means different things. That's a bit much. So I believe we will have separate...

I believe having a different nc_def_var_XXXX() for each compression method is perfectly acceptable and also in accordance with what we already have. The post of @sluehrs actually proves my point....

@gsjaardema you make some excellent points, and all of these must be kept in mind as we move forward. To address one issue, which is how do compression methods interact...

Seems like automatic handling of unpacking is something the netcdf-c library could do as well. Perhaps a new mode flag for nc_open/nc_create, NC_UNPACK, which would indicate that this should be...

Perhaps what is needed is for someone to explain how the filter API can achieve this? ;-) I will dig into this further after AGU, but the first question I...

Seems like this work is going to happen, at least initially, in the community codec repo: https://github.com/ccr/ccr. The point of the CCR is that users can install the ccr tarball...

Merging #2319 might fix this.

A through refactor of all the nested type code has long been on my wish-list. I really just did not get deep nesting of types correctly. Oh well, even the...