What are the changes to the headers that you need? ----- Mike Jackson www.bluequartz.net Principal Software Engineer [email protected] BlueQuartz Software Dayton, Ohio
On Aug 4, 2010, at 20:41, Jesse Lai <[email protected]> wrote: > This question is aimed at the members of the HDFGroup and also to the > community that uses the HDF5DotNet wrappers. I've seen a lot of traffic > lately on questions about functionality that does not exist in the wrappers > released with the initial release of HDF5 1.8.0. It has been noted that > these wrappers were funded by a customer who did not require the full > functionality. Therefore, not all of the functions exist. There are several > useful ones that are currently not included. Additionally, it is clearly > stated in the documentation that these wrappers are a prototype and are not > officially supported. > > As a side project, I've been doing some work to the HDF5DotNet source code to > add some of these functions along with unit tests for the library to make > sure things are working. I personally did not like the style in which the > wrappers were written because it didn't conform to the .NET standard method > of capitalization and other things. So I have updated my version of the > library to change these things. > > The question to the HDFGroup is this: what does the future hold for the > HDF5DotNet wrappers? Is it something that might officially become a product > that gets regular updates, or will it always just be the prototype wrappers? > The main reason I ask is because I would like to see the ability to have a > public source code repository where updates could be made to the wrapper > source code. Does the HDFGroup have a Subversion repository that they would > be willing to let the community use so that we could develop the HDF5DotNet > library further? Or as another option, a public open source project site > like Sourceforge could be used for the same purpose. I'd be willing to use > my source code as the base because I prefer the styling. However, be aware > that because of the naming changes I've made that it wouldn't be a drop in > replacement to the current implementation of the HDF5DotNet wrapper. > > I'd appreciate any feedback from the community and the HDFGroup on this > subject. It seems that there could be some progress made on improving the > library from the community, we just need a place for people to contribute > and/or access the latest code. I'd vote for creating a Sourceforge project > and going down that route, but I don't know if there are any restrictions in > place from the HDFGroup. > > As a side note, there are some very minor modifications that could be made to > future versions of the header files that get released with the HDF5 binaries > that would greatly simplify updates to the HDF5DotNet wrappers. It would not > affect normal building of the HDF5 library either. It would be really great > if that could get included. > > Regards, > Jesse > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
