Jesse, On Aug 12, 2010, at 7:57 PM, Jesse Lai wrote:
> 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. > Thank you for your comments! We liked that approach too, so I hope it can work for other projects. > 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. > There were only 5-6 people working on CMake, so we didn't use a mailing list. But I think if there are more people involved, setting up the list is a good idea. Thanks again! Elena > Thanks, > 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
