Writing a design document about blaze numpy-like API
Add information about reductions
Added the DataDescriptor for HDF5
First test for HDF5 passing
Adding a more complete test suite (still a failure is going on)
Skip HDF5 tests if pytables is not found
Add discussion points from Peter to the end of the document
Merge pull request #120 from mwiebe/numpy_api

design doc for numpy-like API
Added preliminary support for hdf5 arrays in catalog
Using a native HDF5DataDescriptor for building the array in catalog
Centralized the discovery of optional packages in new optional_packages.py
Making PyTables actually optional
Add Vagrantfile for a 64-bit Ubunty saucy blaze setup
Merge pull request #126 from mwiebe/vagrant

Add Vagrantfile for a 64-bit Ubunty saucy blaze setup
Using contexts for file handling as much as possible
Updated test for dealing with scalar conversions with struct arrays and dynd
Adding pytables to the list of packages for running tests
Closing the stale handle that returns mkstemp
Added a small comment on why we close the file handle
Actually doing a flush() after the append