Peter Colberg writes:
> It would probably be reasonable to view the unit strings as a data
> format, and less as a display format; i.e. choose a single format
> based on ASCII, with a single representation of each unit. The data
> format can be converted to a display format using udunits2.
+1
> > The other one is that is may frighten potential users/developers?
+1
> I am more frightened of all the published work that is based on
> simulations that are based on non-peer-reviewed source code ;-).
+1
No contradiction here: different people are frightened by different
things ;-)
> At this point, it seems better not to finalize the specification of
> the units module. We could keep it at a version 0.*, and add a note
> which clarifies that this is a preliminary version. To finalize the
> units module, we need proof of some applications; both for writing
> (simulation programs) and reading (analysis programs).
+1
That makes +4 in total :-)
Konrad.