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.
> 
> 
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