On 8/8/2010 11:04 AM, Elena Pourmal wrote:
Good question, and unfortunately at this moment, we do not have a straight
answer for you. Said this, we see how valuable .NET APIs are and would like to
take several steps (and have been taking already) to provide a better support
for the software:
1) .NET will be in SVN (read-only). We will announce it before September 1
after we finish internal testing.
2) We will be happy to accept patches, especially for the new APIs, bug fixes,
tests, and programming examples.
3) The most important factor for the .NET support is a regression testing with
the HDF5 code under development (both 1.8 branch and trunk). Our group currently
doesn't have resources to do it and will need help from the HDF5 .NET
community. If .NET can be built with CMake, it will be a tremendous help.
4) With the CMake project, we set up an SVN branch with a write access for the
developers who worked with us. The check-ins were reviewed, tested and brought
into the mainstream code that became available with 1.8.5. We think this
model worked well and we may try to take a similar approach with .NET.
We (The HDF Group) will need to give more thought to 2-4 before moving forward.
Suggestions, comments are more than welcome.
Thank you!
Elena
Elena,
Thanks for the response. That sounds like a very good approach. The
read-only SVN repo will allow people to have access to the latest code
base. I don't know anything about CMake, but I will check into it. I
did create an automated build script using the MSBuild process for the
HDF5DotNet code base I've been working on. I'll look into what it would
take (if possible) to build a .NET project with CMake.
I also like the idea of a branch of the code that the community could
use for check-ins. I would like to help to the extent that I can and
that would allow others to as well. The main benefit is that its hosted
with the HDF Group rather than a 3rd party website.
What was the communication method for those developers working on the
CMake project? Was there a separate listserv or something similar? I
would think that would be a good thing to setup for the .NET wrapper
development so developers could communicate without bogging down the
whole list.
Thanks,
Jesse
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