Fwd: Re: HDF5 1.10 transition?

[Gilles Filippini <pini@debian.org>]

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Subject: Re: HDF5 1.10 transition?
Date: 2016-10-25 09:33
From: Gilles Filippini <pini@debian.org>
To: Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>

On 2016-10-25 09:13, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> 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 [1]
> > >
> > > 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 ?

It builds fine. But I haven't tested the resulting package.

Thanks,

_g.