Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#51151 closed enhancement (duplicate)

hdf5: updating to 1.10 switches to the new incompatible file format; please make it possible to build the 1.8.x branch

Reported by: ckhroulev@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.3.4
Keywords: Cc: mamoll (Mark Moll)
Port: hdf5 netcdf

Description

HDF5 1.10 introduces the new file format that cannot be read with HDF5 1.8.x. (See ​https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5110.html#newfeat.)

If I upgrade this port now, the tools I have on my system will generate files I cannot share with people that did not upgrade HDF5 to version 1.10 yet.

Please consider adding a port variant (or a sub-port) that would use the 1.8.x branch of HDF5 (note that the 1.8.x branch is still maintained by HDF Group).

This also affects NetCDF, which uses HDF5 under the hood. See ​https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/250.

Thanks!

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Resolution: → duplicate
Status: new → closed

Duplicate of #51089.

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