Ecosystem integration

[berceanu]

I was surprised to see that pint already has integrations for pandas as well as xarray. I expected unyt, due to its compatibility with numpy, to be easier to integrate into the scientific Python ecosystem. Is this on the roadmap?

[neutrinoceros]

There is no roadmap, and unyt isn't actively developed at the moment, but to answer your question there has been an effort to integrate unyt with dask. Related features are not released yet but will be part of the upcoming unyt 3.0

I think we would welcome any similar effort towards better integration with pandas or xarray, though nobody has yet taken on to do that yet.

[berceanu]

I see, thank you for your reply. Will 3.0 be a maintenance/bugfix release then, since you said it is not being actively developed anymore?

[neutrinoceros]

Not quite. There are a couple, rather big, unreleased features: dask integration and NEP 18 implementation. Both of these were implemented some time ago, but are not being worked on at the moment.

To be clear, we very much intend to keep maintaining unyt, and new developments are absolutely welcome, as far as I am concerned.