Hi Dana, > Ah, I hadn't thought of that. I'll mention that to the appropriate people. > > Does anyone know when the Python folks plan to upgrade to VS2010? VS2008 is > four years old and is now the n-2 version. That's getting a little long in > the tooth.
The newest version of Python (3.3) is built with VS2010. I think they stuck with VS2008 for so long because of the extensions issue. > There is no way around the C runtime issue that I know of. > > Do people who use h5py, etc. use our binaries (which I assume) or do they > build HDF5 via CMake? On Windows, we ship a copy of HDF5 along with the h5py installer, which is built by the h5py team. It's customized to disable the SZIP writer for licensing issues, and to rename the DLL to avoid a conflict with PyTables. Right now that version is built with VS2008 (and on a WinXP build node, for added irony). I build from the included project file at the moment but I'm fine with switching to CMake. > I would assume so, but I don't think we've had a lot of problems with > VS-specific issues in HDF5. Usually Windows bugs apply to all versions of > Visual Studio and Windows. If this is the case, may I ask what the motivation is to drop VS2008 support? Is it to reduce the testing burden? I understand the HDF Group can't support every old compiler forever, but I would certainly be willing to chip in with testing, etc. because this is such an important part of our infrastructure. Andrew _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
