html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3981#issuecomment-877607680,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3981,877607680,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg3NzYwNzY4MA==,67612,2021-07-10T09:45:04Z,2021-07-10T09:45:04Z,NONE,@shoyer - thanks for the feedback. I guess this means that it's unlikely this will be ready in time for our own CZI grant to finish (around June 2022)?,"{""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-877403316,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3981,877403316,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg3NzQwMzMxNg==,67612,2021-07-09T19:15:52Z,2021-07-09T19:15:52Z,NONE,"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 because he reminded me about this thread.","{""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-665533405,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3981,665533405,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY2NTUzMzQwNQ==,67612,2020-07-29T08:56:23Z,2020-07-29T08:56:23Z,NONE,"Just to add - we at [Nibabel](https://github.com/nipy/nibabel) are very interested in adding labelled arrays with Xarray, but for us, the Pandas dependency is a serious problem. We're a base library for reading brain imaging formats, and we sit at the bottom of several imaging stacks, so it is very important to us that we don't introduce heavy dependencies - because we pass these on to all the libraries that depend on us. We've looked enviously at Xarray for a while, but the Pandas dependency is a serious-enough problem that we've held off from using it. Just for example, the Pandas dependency of Xarray was the reason that I [was working](https://github.com/BIDS/datarray/graphs/contributors) on [Datarray](https://pypi.org/project/datarray), to see if we could use that instead (we couldn't).","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,602256880