Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module

[Pierre de Buyl]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 04:03:08AM +0100, Peter Colberg wrote:
> Since there is considerable interest in publishing a finalized version
> of the units module along with the first release of H5MD, I familiarized
> with the udunits2 library, and tested the specification of the units
> module.
> 
> Please see the test results in examples/h5md.lua of Lua Units [1]:
> 
> http://git.colberg.org/lua-units/
> 
> The grammar is fine, i.e. it is a subset of the udunits2 grammar.
> 
> There are a number of symbols that do not match a unit in the udunits2
> database. There is one symbol ("h") that corresponds to a different
> unit than in the udunits2 database ("hour").
> 
> Some issues can be resolved by using the name of the unit (e.g.
> "degree" instead of "deg"). Other issues can not be resolved due to
> not having a corresponding unit in the udunits2 database. I suggest to
> drop the latter units, since it is possible but painful to maintain a
> custom database for the H5MD units module.

>From your file, I see that some units/constants are commented out.

Would renaming "deg" to "degree" and removing dyne, dalton, poise, h solve the
problems?

P