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Why ROOT file format is not just a halfway decent file format and why HDF5 is not much better: https://indico.cern.ch/event/567550/contributions/2628878/attach

• tempay 9y ago
  My biggest problem with ROOT files is the dependency on ROOT, which is tricky to distribute. Though projects like uproot[1] look promising and I think ROOT 7 might improve things. [1] https://github.com/scikit-hep/uproot https://github.com/scikit-hep/uproot
  • random_nick_xyz 9y ago
    AFAIK the ROOT file format was designed to be completely self descriptive. It can be read without ROOT. For instance: https://ep-dep-sft.web.cern.ch/contributed-event/149099 https://ep-dep-sft.web.cern.ch/contributed-event/149099