Kevin, Dave, and All, We understand the importance of this feature and started working on it long before HDF5 1.10.0. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough bandwidth to finish the feature for HDF5 1.10.0 and 1.10.1. Implementation of the new functionality took precedence. The feature will be available before we drop support for HDF5 1.8.* (date will be announced).
Elena > On Jul 20, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Kevin B. McCarty <kmcca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Seconding the request from Dave Allured, (apologies that I can't reply > on the same thread since I subscribed to the HDF5 mailing list only > just now), > > In HDF5 1.8.x there was a macro H5F_LIBVER_18 in H5Fpublic.h which I > understood that, if used as the "earliest" argument to > H5Pset_libver_bounds(), would ensure that an HDF5 file created with > this plist would be backwards-compatible to some version of HDF 1.8 > for reads later. > > In HDF5 1.10.1 (I haven't looked at 1.10.0), this macro has been > removed. This seems bad to me since first of all its removal breaks > the library's public API (we were using that macro for reason stated > above!). > > But more importantly, it seems that there is now no way to get an HDF > 1.10.1-using application to generate a 1.8.x-format HDF5 file (as > opposed to a format with H5F_LIBVER_EARLIEST which we presume is > probably less efficient than the 1.8.x format, though we'd be happy to > be corrected of course ;-). Is this true? For backwards > compatibility reasons, my employer is unable to upgrade our software > to using 1.10.x unless and until this could be addressed. (We are > currently at 1.8.18.) > > > [P.S. As you are an open-source project, it would be nice if your > issue tracker was public and would accept submissions from external > parties ...] > > Thanks and best regards, > > -- > Kevin B. McCarty > <kmcca...@gmail.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > Hdf-forum@lists.hdfgroup.org > http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org > Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5 _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. Hdf-forum@lists.hdfgroup.org http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5
