Jeff Whitaker

it's optional - default is no compression.

there is very little difference in file size with deflate_level=1 and 5 for the restarts, but the IO is much faster with deflate_level=1

reading from an ascii file sounds cumbersome and slow - why not netcdf?

Don't have access to a windows machine, I will try to find one next week. Note that the Windows wheels are contributed by @cgohlke (https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/).

Sad news about the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics. Christoph has made tremendous contributions to this community. To answer @dopplershift 's question, I don't have the time to invest in figuring...

and to the OP's original issue - it seems that we understand what is going on. No binary wheels for 3.7, so pip tries to build from source and fails,...

There is a separate [repo](https://github.com/MacPython/netcdf4-python-wheels) for building wheels. It currently uses [multibuild](https://github.com/multi-build/multibuild) to build manylinux and macos wheels. The process is somewhat complicated because there are so many C lib...

@dopplershift @shoyer any thoughts on this?

thanks - that's my thought as well. I will merge PR #1198 next week if we have no dissenting opinions by then.

It's not clear to me whether this is an issue with all the wheels for 1.6.1, or just the windows wheels? It's hard to see why the linux and macosx...