Welcome to the project! HDF Compass is an experimental viewer program for HDF5 and related formats, designed to complement other more complex applications like HDFView. Strong emphasis is placed on clean minimal design, and maximum extensibility through a plugin system for new formats.

HDF Compass is written in Python, but ships as a native application on Windows, OS X, and Linux, by using PyInstaller and Py2App to package the app.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome! For non-trivial PRs please open an issue first, so the core developers can give feedback on your idea.

You will need:

• Python 2.7
• NumPy
• Matplotlib
• wxPython Phoenix (2.9.5.0 or later)
• h5py

For packaging the app:

• Py2App (OS X)
• PyInstaller (Linux & Windows)

$ python HDFCompass.py

$ python setup.py py2app

$ pyinstaller HDFCompass.spec

• Homepage: http://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf-compass
• License: BSD-like HDF Group license (See COPYING)