Thanks Russ! What brought this up is fink wants to install the new HDF5, and I
use fink for my netCDF4 also. As you know, this has arisen before as a problem
in Fink, so I wasn't asking just to be nasty and make work for you guys!
-Roy
On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>
>> The HDF Group just released a new version of HDF5, so this raises the questi
>> ons:
>>
>> 1) What is the latest version of HDF5 that is believed works with netcdf4?
>>
>> 2). What is the recommended version of HDF5 for netcdf4?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Roy
>>
>> PS - One thing that would be helpful is when HDF releases a new version, some
>> thing is said if it is known or not known if netcdf4 will work with the new r
>> elease.
>
> Good questions!
>
> We have a collaborative arrangement with THG under which they run
> nightly tests of our svn trunk against their release candidates, and
> inform us if there is a failing test that persists for several days.
> When we learn of this, we diagnose the problem and get the tests working
> again. As a result, we're fairly confident that our release candidates
> will work with new HDF5 releases when they're announced.
>
> We know that our latest C release, 4.2.1.1, works with HDF5-1.8.9 and
> HDF5-1.8.10, and we know that our svn trunk, which will become a release
> candidate for netCDF 4.3.0 works with HDF5 1.8.10-patch1, where "works"
> is defined in terms of the nightly tests run by the HDF5 group. We'll
> run our own tests against the current release of HDF5 before any
> release, with the intention of making sure the tests pass with the
> latest version of HDF5.
>
> --Russ
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