Hi, I'm not a casual user of HDF/HDF.net but I have some elements I concur with:
> 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. +1, I remember when hacking some code with hdf.net that extension methods where a short way for me to provide more .net convention compliant wrapping over the library. but I also understand that the wrapper library should be just that (to not compromize performance for say), and a more high level API can sit on top of it. One thing to keep in mind is that it would be better to have the base wrapping work done automatically (from reading the C headers) and add a "sweet" layer on top of that, I know that mono project is doing similar things to wrap native APIs in c# > 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? I would favor a distributed versioning system (hg or git), google code provides this for free as well as others (sourceforge as well btw) On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 17:41, 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
