Zarr.jl

[joshmoore]

See: https://github.com/meggart/Zarr.jl

@meggart, would there be interest in having Zarr.jl tested against other implementations?

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Steps:

• (Primarily) add a driver under generate_data/ that minimally generates but optionally also reads zarr data (see jzarr example)
• if implementing reading, add a read_with_julia method
• update environment with Julia requirements
• add Makefile targets

[meggart]

Yes, of course. I always wanted to do this but did not get to it yet. I have a few unit tests that compare against zarr-python (https://github.com/meggart/Zarr.jl/blob/master/test/python.jl), but something more systematic would be great.

[joshmoore]

A perhaps interesting test to include: JuliaIO/Zarr.jl#78 (comment)

(see also: zarr-developers/community#41)

[mkitti]

I'll volunteer to help on this (or perhaps I have been volunteered) although I think @meggart has the lead here. What needs to be done?

Maybe the first step is to address JuliaIO/Zarr.jl#25. I'm already a member of https://github.com/JuliaIO, so I'm biased in that direction.

[joshmoore]

Thanks for the offer, @mkitti! I've updated the description with the steps that I know of. From the perspective of this repo, happy to point to whatever org even temporarily and we can always update when JuliaIO/Zarr.jl#25 is settled.

[meggart]

I agree with @joshmoore . Thanks a lot for offering your help here and we can start writing these coparison tests for Julia independent on where the package lives. Thanks also for updating the todo list @mkitti let me know what kind of support you would need to write the tests, of course I would be available for reviewing code.

[grlee77]

The instructions in the docs proposed in #44 should help. Please provide feedback there if you find things that should be added or clarified.

[mkitti]

Zarr.jl is now in JuliaIO.