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One standard or two? #1

Closed DavidSagan closed 6 years ago

DavidSagan commented 6 years ago

My thought is that there should be one standard which is a modification of the existing openPMD standard. This new standard would be version 2 to keep things backwards compatible. I think this is preferable to having two standards which would put more work on program maintainers.

Thoughts?

marcguetg commented 6 years ago

We could make them overlap in most cases by including things like meshPath, particlePath and basePath even though we enforce them to have specific values. But maybe others can comment on that issue as well.

DavidSagan commented 6 years ago

Why not just have one standard with an openPMDextension(s) to handle all the cases?

marcguetg commented 6 years ago

I thought that was the idea. As far as I see it we have a few violations which would be easy to fix and a few others which might be harder. There we should decide if compability to openPMD or our (simulation code) specific needs are more important

DavidSagan commented 6 years ago

OK I was confused here so l will close the issue.