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Re: HDF5 1.10 transition?



Le 25 oct. 2016 8:37 AM, "Sebastiaan Couwenberg" <sebastic@xs4all.nl> a écrit :
>
> On 10/24/2016 11:54 PM, Gilles Filippini wrote:
> > I'm about to request a transition slot for HDF5 1.10 in a couple of
> > days, but I'm concerned about pytables which doesn't support HDF5 1.10
> > at all [1].
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/issues/545
> >
> > This package seems rather widely used, with a popcon > 3000. What do you
> > think should be done?
> > * leave Stretch with HDF5 1.8.16 (don not transition)
> > * transition and break pytables
> > * transition and temporarily ship pytables with an embedded hdf5 1.8.16
> > source tree
> > * ...
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any feedback,
>
> Ideally #545 leads to upstream adding support for HDF5 1.10,
> alternatively perhaps the Debian community can contribute that support.
>
> In case support for HDF5 1.10 isn't available before the transition,
> embedding HDF5 1.8.16 seems like a reasonable alternative, although
> highly undesirable.
>
> Breaking pytables may help motivate affected parties to work on HDF5
> 1.10 support, but risks removal of a substantial reverse dependency
> chain from stretch. Also highly undesirable.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>
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What about h5py ? Have you tried it with hdf5 v1.10 ?

Ghis


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