Re: [Pytables-users] Re: Dimension Scales and Pytables

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Hi Francesc,
First don't worry since I sent my last patch I've not made new
modifications.
But there's something I've done that I feel uncomfortable with (hence this
mail). Indeed I'm beginning to wonder whether adding new attributes (the
ones storing pathnames instead of 'references') was so good an idea.
Thanks to these attributes, I could almost get rid of the functions from th=
e
HDF5 Api for Dimension Scales. But my goal was not to redo Dimension Scales
for PyTables, but rather to integrate the feature from Hdf5. Besides redoin=
g
a Hdf5 feature would - to my mind - be contrary to the PyTables  philosophy=
.
If I could get the pathname of a dataset from its 'reference', I wouldn't
have to add these attributes. And my work could be greately simplified.
I've asked one of the Hdf5 team about this point, but according to him it's
currently not possible.
But maybe Hdf5 could be slightly modified, or maybe you know an other way t=
o
work around my problem (given that you certainly know much more about Hdf5
than I do).
By the way, I fully agree with you about my work not being integrated in th=
e
next stable release of PyTables (unless Hdf5 1.8 is out).
Cheers,
--
Remi