On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 09:58 -0500, Elena Pourmal wrote: > But we do have a procedure for registering new filters with us. It is > simple: > > > To request a filter identifier please contact [email protected] > with the following information > > # Contact information for developer requesting the new identifier > # Short description of the new filter > # Links to any relevant information including licensing > information
Thanks, I will do this. As a matter of fact, the software is already under a two clause BSD style license, so no compatibility concerns here. On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 07:51 +0200, Ger van Diepen wrote: > I think it would be nice if a 3rd party filter is loaded dynamically > using dlopen. > > The name of the filter needs to be reflected in the library name in > some standard way. The init function of the library can register the > filter in HDF5's filter registry. I think it only requires a small > addition to the way HDF5 finds a filter. > > In this way one the filter repository can be a set of shared libraries > or dlls; one does not need to change HDF5 to use a new filter. Also > all HDF5 tools can work with all filters. This sounds great. If such a scheme would be implemented, we would certainly provide a pure lzma filter as well as our own algorithm. Best regards, Nathanael _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
