Ryan May

I agree that custom dtypes is the right solution (and I'll go dig some more there). In the meantime, I'm not sure why you couldn't wrap an xarray `DataArray` in...

We elected not to start rebuilding things with netCDF 4.9.0 since 4.9.1 should be out realSoonNow™️ , so I don't think there's a netcdf4 package in conda-forge that has it...

@jswhit is there any prospect of using cibuildwheel for Windows builds? There was talk of @cgohlke's [lab shutting down](https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/vcaibq/christoph_gohlkes_windows_wheels_site_is_shutting/) before July 2022. While the [link](https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/) is still active (and mention...

> It would be a real shame if it did not work with generic Zarr output. The intention is for netCDF to support generic Zarr output, so this should readily...

@JamiePringle Can you share the commands you used to build and install netcdf-c 4.9.0? Also, to be clear, you're not setting any `HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH` when running `ncdump`?

@DennisHeimbigner Well in regards to fixing up conda, we can start by fixing the build of 4.9.0. See this open PR that you're tagged on: https://github.com/conda-forge/libnetcdf-feedstock/pull/140

@DennisHeimbigner I'm working to verify, but at some point someone else needs to learn the conda-forge stuff so I'm not in the critical path. It's already critical to so much...

I agree, my lean was towards mirroring NumPy behavior.

Unless relying on the AWS C SDK is completely untenable (and I've heard inconsistent reports on whether that's the case), I'd *really* like to see us avoid expending engineering effort...

@DennisHeimbigner Well, let's not hold up creating a library to handle remote access to the S3 API, including all of the authentication options that people expect for S3, as some...