Bug 279615 – sci-libs/hdf5-1.6.9 and 1.8.3 version bump request

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nico Schlömer 2009-07-29 19:54:59 UTC]

Hi,

HDF5 1.6.9 is out since mid-May, please bump.

Cheers,
Nico

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 James Earl Spahlinger 2009-07-29 20:12:16 UTC]

*** Bug 279618 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 James Earl Spahlinger 2009-07-29 20:13:52 UTC]

I just closed Bug 279618 as a duplicate of this bump request, it is a request for 1.8.3 to be bumped and slotted. 

[Comment 3 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) 2009-08-18 21:04:25 UTC]

I am not so familiar with hdf5, but I worked a fair amount on the 1.8.3 ebuild in the science overlay. It seems that if we want an application to compile with the old 1.6 API it is sufficient to add -DH5_USE_16_API to CPPFLAGS.
In that case, I don't see why keeping along the 1.6 versions and not slot it.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks.

[Comment 4 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2009-08-20 22:32:02 UTC]

Given that not too many packages use hdf5 I think
it might not be worth the trouble to slot hdf5.
As you already mentioned, hdf5-1.8 offers a backward
compatibility mode to 1.6 via -DH5_USE_16_API which 
is what we use in the paraview ebuild so everything
in the tree that needs hdf5 should compile against 1.8. 

Best,
Markus

[Comment 5 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) 2009-08-26 06:32:07 UTC]

OK, then unless someone is willing to re-check the need of slotting, we won't update to 1.6.9, and work on the 1.8.x releases instead.