perrygreenfield

There is already, sort of, depending on how you look at things. There is support for putting FITS in ASDF with a view that round-tripping doesn't lose any FITS info...

I don't see why not, but I'll wait for Ed to return to see if he sees any issues with that (he's on vacation until the end of next week).

Does the material under Extending ASDF answer your question, particularly in the subsections Resources and resource mappings, Converters, Extensions, and Extension manifests? I didn't read carefully enough. Ed is on...

@larrybradley this is beginning to remind me of one of my favorite CS quotes: > If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual...

Thanks for noticing this. This certainly needs to be corrected. I'll see if it can't be done in the next couple of weeks.

If I'm not mistaken, you should be able to tell from the yaml definition for the small arrays that they are views based on the metadata necessary to present a...

Regarding the old question. If there is only one view of an array (and the base array is not referred to the tree) it should be possible to determine that...

As far as the warning goes, sure until the behavior changes. But when people make slices that they don't care that they share some identical data, I think the onus...

I wonder if this is another instance of trying to do too much with ASDF, similar to the argument I made about tuples previously. What sense is there in storing...

I agree that the help on this tool should be improved. As for the last line of your comment, did you mean "can" instead of "can't"?