perrygreenfield

I think I am missing some background on this issue. If you could clarify what you are trying to do in a little more detail it would help me check...

As for Panda DataFrames, we are trying to keep the format language neutral and putting something like that in the main standard works against that. Not that it can't be...

This sounds generically useful enough to support. I'd like to hear comments from others, but I'm fairly positive on it.

I'm going to take a look at it today. Once concern is how sensitive the blocking optimization varies between machines. If it is sensitive to machine variations that is a...

For the most part, the binary use in numcodec appears to be purely language agnostic though I agree that all compression info should be in yaml (from what I see,...

@lgarrison I notice that you worry about a 4MB block size. ASDF blocks are not limited to that. Could you explain where this comes from? Also, any reason that all...

@NumesSanguis I'm at an out of town meeting this week but will try to get you an answer early next week if someone else at STScI doesn't answer it sooner.

@NumesSanguis I wasn't sure how you were attempting to append. Normally, I would append a new array to the tree so I have the following example that does something similar:...

Have you followed the recommendations at the end of this page? https://asdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/asdf/extending/resources.html#installing-resources-via-entry-points

It would be good to illustrate this with an example showing when it would be automatically used to add a description field. It certainly would be important to be able...