AEDAT decoder

[aMarcireau]

Hey @biphasic

I wrote a fast AEDAT decoder with a Python wrapper. I thought it could be nice to make Loris depend on it, to provide seamless decoding of AEDAT as well. The package is available on PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/aedat/).

There are a few caveats, though:

• it is only compatible with AEDAT 4
• it can only read files, not write them

I was not able to directly add support to Loris, as the library is written in Rust, not C++ (I started it as an exercise to learn Rust). Feel free to close this issue if you'd rather keep Loris dependency free.

Cheers, Alex

[biphasic]

Amazing! That's a great idea. How can I help?

[aMarcireau]

If you like the idea, I can make a PR to Loris (Python only) which will:

• add a dependency to the aedat package
• use it to decode files with the .adept extension
• return a special error message mentioning that only aedat4 is supported if decoding fails with a .aedat file

I will need your help to upload the new version to PyPI.

[biphasic]

excellent. Could you please provide a small sample file encoded with aedat4, so I can include some tests! Once everything passes, I will merge and upload a new major version to pypi