On 7/14/20 5:11 PM, Anton Gladky wrote: > Hi. > > Thanks for your contribution to Debian. I have just some doubts about > usefulness for Debian and possible popularity of those two projects.
hi Anton thanks for your comment. happy to explain. Changed message title from "JSON/..." to "JData/BJData encoders and decoders" to avoid further confusions. see my self-introduction in a previous thread https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2020/06/msg00006.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=fangqq%40gmail.com I am working on packaging a number research software produced from my lab and research projects. I have already submitted 5 octave-related projects, mentored by Rafael Laboissière (CCed) via the Debian Octave Group. I intend to maintain these packages in the future (already doing so for Fedora). These two python modules are part of a bigger project that I initiated last year (http://openjdata.org). They allow python users to read/write JData-annotated data files produced by my MATLAB toolbox JSONLab (https://github.com/fangq/jsonlab , about 46000 downloads on Matlab file exchange and ~1000 clones/week on github). This work is partly funded by my NIH (National Institute of Health) grants and broader dissemination is part of the project goals. > Do you know how many people can be interested in these two libraries? > It looks like at least one of them duplicates the functionality of the > built-in > JSON module. Could you please shortly describe the benefits of both > of them before we start to evaluate it technically? The *python-bjdata* project was extended from *python-ubjson* - an existing Debian package. Unfortunately, the UBJSON spec (http://ubjson.org), despite being broadly used, is no longer actively maintained. I started a fork earlier this year to continue the development of this specification, and python-bjdata is a parser that is compliant to the BJData spec. The jdata/bjdata framework is not a duplication to JSON - instead, it defines a systematic way to encode basic data structures into JSON/UBJSON/BJData serializable forms. The detailed specifications, examples and rationales can be found at http://openjdata.org/wiki/ in a way, the jdata module is similar to *json-tricks* but aimed at a more systematic/standardized way to annotate complex data (such as graphs, maps, ND arrays ...) for sharing, exchange and reuse. https://packages.debian.org/buster/python/python3-json-tricks the bjdata module is a binary JSON format (similar to UBJSON, and msgpack) to store binary and strongly typed hierarchical data. The differences are highlighted in this github tracker https://github.com/ubjson/universal-binary-json/issues/109 Although these two modules were recently developed, we are beginning to integrate those in my other tools including *iso2mesh* <http://iso2mesh.sf.net/>, *jsonlab* <http://openjdata.org/jsonlab> and *mcx* <http://mcx.space/> (~10,000 registered users combined). So packaging and maintaining these tools will greatly facilitate the data exchange among the user communities. let me know if I can provide any additional explanations. thanks Qianqian > > Best regards > > > Anton > > > Am Di., 14. Juli 2020 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb Qianqian Fang > <fan...@gmail.com <mailto:fan...@gmail.com>>: > > Dear Science team, > > I just submitted two python module packages and wonder if anyone is > willing to take a look and sponsor these packages > > The python-jdata and python-bjdata packages aim to enable sharing > python > data with other programming environments (like MATLAB, C/C++) via > JSON/binary JSON encoded data files (i.e. the JData/Binary JData > specifications). > > The RFS and mentors links can be found in the below two links > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964993 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964994 > > both packaging files can be found at > > https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/pybj > https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/pyjdata > > Also need some input on removing the > missing-dependency-on-numpy-abi error. > > thanks > > Qianqian >
