Same goes for h5diff ;) It'd be nice to be able to 'call' h5diff on two files or two groups (optionally recusively) or two datasets, types or attributes from within my application. I suspect similar arguments could be made for most of the 'tools' codes.
Mark On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:19 -0700, John K wrote: > It occurs to me that the h5dump program does a lot of stuff that would > be really useful to have in library code. As an example, I was running > into a problem today that I suspected was due to a type definition that > was in use incorrectly. I was ultimately able to confirm my suspicion > by reading code, but during that search I thought it'd be really handy > to have a function that I could use to dump out the structure of the > data type to some output stream or other. > > h5dump already does what I was interested in, but it's not library code > and would be difficult to integrate into my program to look at the > definition of a type that's only defined in memory. > > Anyway, I thought it'd be super useful to have some of this code in > h5dump moved into a high level library for debugging (or other) purposes. > > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org -- Mark C. Miller, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<!!LLNL BUSINESS ONLY!!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected] urgent: [email protected] T:8-6 (925)-423-5901 M/W/Th:7-12,2-7 (530)-753-8511 _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
