[Pytables-users] Questionnaire

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

Hi List,

Now that PyTables has passed its second birthday, we need your feedback
again. So, please, if you are using PyTables and like this effort to be
continued and improved, take some time to respond to this
questionnaire; it will help us to decide what to do in the next few
months.

=46ollowing are our 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?

=2D Implement support for Variable Length values in Table columns (most
  likely implemented in a brand-new object called VLTables).

=2D Implement relationships (apart from the existing hierarchical ones)
  between objects in the object tree (kind of symbolic links on a
  filesystems), and pointers to dataset regions.

=2D Implement date support in Leaf objects (specially on Tables).

=2D Full index-based searches in Tables (right now, you can only set one
  condition in index-accelerated searches).

=2D Image support (in the sense stated in
  http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/ImageSpec.html).


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

=2D What feature do you like more (not necessarily listed before)?

=2D What feature do you miss more (not necessarily listed before)?

=2D Do you prefer seeing PyTables to become (even) faster or less memory
  demanding?

=2D Which present limitations do you find more annoying?

=2D In which field of engineering, science or business are you using
  PyTables?


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

Thanks,

=2D-=20
=46rancesc Altet
Who's your data daddy? =A0PyTables