Matthew Brett

This change makes me very nervous. For example: ``` ln -s link_target.nii link.nii ``` Now consider: ``` python >>> import numpy as np >>> import nibabel as nib >>> nib.save(nib.Nifti1Image(np.ones((2,...

No, I meant that - when the environment variable is not set, the code above will give you the original contents of `link_target.nii`, but when the env var is set,...

Right - I realize it is by design, but consider this code, where `bar.nii` is some image other than `np.ones((2, 3, 4))`: ``` >>> import numpy as np >>> import...

If I understand right, git-annex is the biggest (only?) motivation for this change? Does git-annex symlink to files in the repository? That seems like it would cause chaos for many...

A bot - but maybe a bot that just passed the Turing test ...

Hi, On Thursday, December 4, 2014, moloney wrote: > To be more precise about the character encoding in a DICOM: > > 1) The "SpecificCharacterSet" does tell us something about...

Oops - sorry - I see (now I downloaded it extremely slowly) that `chardet` is for detecting character encoding. That makes me feel a little nervous though, I could imagine...

I thought a bit about the xprotocol parser. I think we'll likely need a generic parser in nibabel, of which the xprotocol parser could be a specific instance. For example,...

OK - I'll wade back into it and see what I can do. Might end up giving up but I'll let you know if so.

For the character encoding - the situation I hope we can avoid is where somebody running the code on two different machines on the same data gets two different answers...