[petsc-dev] need for HDF5 < 1.8.0 support?

[Scott Kruger]

FWIW, spack only supports 1.8.10 and above which means that a 
significant fraction of the scientific software stack has moved on.

Scott

On 12/7/18 7:56 AM, Jed Brown via petsc-dev wrote:
> "Smith, Barry F." <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
>>    A potential drawback is some users also use HDF5 directly in their code and may be using an older version (people are very slow to change).
> 
> The HDF5 developers were very deliberate about this.  You can still use
> the old API in your own code while linking to the new library.  See
> H5_USE_16_API.
> 
> https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/APICompatMacros.html
> 

-- 
Tech-X Corporation               kruger at txcorp.com
5621 Arapahoe Ave, Suite A       Phone: (720) 974-1841
Boulder, CO 80303                Fax:   (303) 448-7756