[Pytables-users] Questionnaire

[Francesc A. <fa...@op...>]

Hi List,

Now that almost a year has passed from the first public release of pytables,
I need your feedback. So, please, if you are using pytables and like this
effort to be continued and improved, take some time to respond to this
questionnaire about pytables; it will help me to decide what to do in the
next few months.

Following are my plans for the next few months, before releasing the 1.0
version. Could you respond to these questions by giving a punctuation
ranging from +5 (I absolutely need that) to 0 (I can pass without this) to
these planned features?

- Implement enlargeable (i.e. chunked) Array objects.

- Implement support for Variable Length values (mostly in enlargeable
Arrays, but possibly also in Tables).

- Implement relationships (apart from the existing hierarchical ones)
between objects in the object tree.

- Make pytables less memory demanding.

- Improve speed of opening files in pytables

- Improve speed of reading and selecting values in Leaf (Table and Array)
objects.


Now, answer the next questions. If you don't like to respond all of them,
this is not necessary.

- What feature do you like more (not necessarily listed before)?

- What feature do you miss more (not necessarily listed before)?

- Do you prefer seeing pytables to become (even) faster or less memory
demanding?

- Which present limitations do you find more annoying?

- In which field of science or bussiness are you using pytables?


Ok, that's all. I hope some of you will take some of his precious time to
fillup the questionnaire. Even only one answer would be much better than my
sole opinion!.

Thanks,

-- 
Francesc Alted