[MINC-development] MINC2 API inconsistent data type

[Jason Lerch]

On 2012-12-11, at 4:08 PM, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 December 2012 07:00, Vladimir S. FONOV <vladimir.fonov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I think the best would be to use hsize_t - since that's the underlying HDF5
>> data type.
> 
> Sounds like a very good plan to me.  I wonder how many people have
> already used the original two functions in code?  Still I think it's
> an important enough change to warrant "breaking" things.

I use them both in RMINC, pyminc, and a few bits of C code but agree that some breakage to get rid of these kind of inconsistencies (unless there's a reason for them, though I can't think of it) is worth it.

Jason