David Stansby

Pinging @jakirkham to see if you have any thoughts, because I know you've been tidying this up recently.

> I propose that we switch to a model where instead instantiating a codec class where an optional dependency is missing raises a helpful error message. So I tried this...

I'm going to transfer this to numcodecs, because I think this is more of a request for a new filter or codec. If there's interest in adding this to the...

> True, but that's coordinateSystems, not coordinateTransformations. Ah of course! Maybe it would be worth putting in a similar statement about sytems too (if there isn't one already)? 👍 to...

My two cents: > [`input` and `output` fields] MUST be present if it's a byDimension (why?) I also didn't immediately understand this, and at https://github.com/ome/ngff/issues/358 I have a proposal to...

👍 sounds like a good way forward to me

i've put a proposal at #281 - do you have context on why `latest` was removed (cc @normanrz)? It seems quite logical to me to **always** have a `latest` folder...

Wanted to check what the status was here with the new submodules now? There's now a `latest` folder that seems to point to 0.5, so that doesn't seem like the...

To more concretely summarise where I think this specific issue is at, and propose a postive way forward: In https://github.com/ome/ngff/issues/276#issuecomment-2507641144 the advice was to propose a change against the `0.5`...

It's worth noting that if arbitrary extra keys are allowed, then this removes any future possibility of backwards compatibility between versions of the specification in future. To give a concrete...