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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3981#issuecomment-877464691,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3981,877464691,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg3NzQ2NDY5MQ==,1217238,2021-07-09T21:25:25Z,2021-07-09T21:25:25Z,MEMBER,"We wrote a proposal to build an ""xarray-lite"" as part of a recent CZI
application. We're still waiting to hear back, but if that's funded we'd
definitely love to work with you on this.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 12:16 PM Matthew Brett ***@***.***>
wrote:

> We were just talking about this over at https://github.com/nipy/nibabel -
> because we are about commit ourselves to an array-axis-labelling API. Is
> xarray-lite on the near or the distant horizon? Should we wait, to make
> our decisions? Mentioning @effigies <https://github.com/effigies> because
> he reminded me about this thread.
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","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,602256880
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3981#issuecomment-808677644,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3981,808677644,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDgwODY3NzY0NA==,1217238,2021-03-27T07:18:23Z,2021-03-27T07:18:23Z,MEMBER,"Thinking about this a little more, I would lean towards the separate package that xarray could depend upon. Perhaps we could all this `xarr` to denote a minimal version of `xarray`, unless that's too punny?","{""total_count"": 2, ""+1"": 2, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,602256880
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3981#issuecomment-665812548,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3981,665812548,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY2NTgxMjU0OA==,1217238,2020-07-29T17:58:50Z,2020-07-29T17:58:50Z,MEMBER,"> BUT @shoyer has been consistent against making Variable public, so maybe the best option is to fork it out to `xarray-contrib/variable`?

`Variable` is a public API, which just don't encourage it for (most) users.

I think it would be relatively straightforward to expose `xarray.Variable` without the pandas dependency. We currently use pandas a little bit for input normalization in `Variable` and methods like `isnull()`, but we could likely add slower fallback option (or just not expose these features unless pandas is installed).","{""total_count"": 2, ""+1"": 2, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,602256880