Hi Felix, > Interesting to hear that there are plans to bring back a windows driver. Any > info possible about when it might get funded and implementation time could be > scheduled? > What would be the differences between a "true" windows driver and the one > that was in prior to 1.8.8?
We have no time frame for it since it's unfunded and is unlikely to be funded in the near future. All I can say for certain is that it's not scheduled for HDF5 1.8.10 or 11. The difference would be that all file I/O in a proper Windows VFD would be via Win32 API calls (CreateFile, WriteFile, ReadFile, etc.). This would potentially allow us to use more advanced features like Win32 asynchronous I/O, NTFS sparse files, etc. > I thought of option 2) as well because 1) is nasty since we need the same > code base for unix builds as well. Making a copy is probably what I would do. You don't even have to change the build environment since H5FDwindows.c/h already exist. :) Dana _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
