[CF-metadata] Interpretation of Compression by Gathering method

From: Mike Grant <mggr>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:22:54 -0000

On 01/06/11 16:17, Steve Hankin wrote:
> In view of the option to use
> "chunked" netCDF4 compression transparently with the netCDF3 classic
> API, there's a strong case that the old Compression by Gathering should
> be formally deprecated.

I agree. Implementing compression at the application/convention layer
is unlikely to deploy well. At the library layer, it has a good chance.

The only argument for convention layer compression is that library
compression is likely to be generic and one can probably do better with
more dataset-specific compression. However, I suspect that'd then be
too specific for CF!

Cheers,

Mike.

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