FWIW, spack only supports 1.8.10 and above which means that a
significant fraction of the scientific software stack has moved on.
Scott
On 12/7/18 7:56 AM, Jed Brown via petsc-dev wrote:
"Smith, Barry F." <[email protected]> writes:
A potential drawback is some users also use HDF5 directly in their code and
may be using an older version (people are very slow to change).
The HDF5 developers were very deliberate about this. You can still use
the old API in your own code while linking to the new library. See
H5_USE_16_API.
https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/APICompatMacros.html
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