gender → sex?

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

Although sex might be perceived as offensive in other contexts, in the context of life sciences it must be used instead of gender, where appropriate. The EDF+ specification is clear about it:

- sex (English, so F or M).

Would you agree to fix this, if backwards compatibility is assured and tested, of course?

• What are Sex & Gender? And why do they matter in health research?
• What Do We Mean By Sex and Gender?

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

See: https://gitlab.com/Teuniz/EDFlib/-/issues/12

[skjerns]

if this is implemented in upstream edflib, surely we'll change this as well.

[skjerns]

Proposal: Change all functions to use "sex" instead of "gender", but keep previous functions with DeprecationWarning.

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

I could copy the latest versions of edflib.h and edflib.h from EDFlib, but I understand you have slightly modified them. What would you suggest?

[skjerns]

I could copy the latest versions of edflib.h and edflib.h from EDFlib, but I understand you have slightly modified them. What would you suggest?

indeed, there are some modifications which make it hard to simply update. For now we could either only adapt it in the python code or additionally integrate the changes in the C files into the current code base.

It's a bit unfortunate that the C files are altered so much. Maybe in the future we should think about keeping the original C/h files in our code base and only do alterations in the Python files, or as additional C files

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

We can keep the C files as they are for now. They are not visible by end users.