Kludge
Description:
Since we're only about halfway through converting the internal use of
property lists from the "old way" to the generic property lists, we turned
off snapshots to avoid exposing lots of API changes to users, until the
APIs settled down.
Getting the snapshots rolling again seems to have become a priority, so
some changes are going to have to be made now that were going to be
postponed until we were completely finished with the conversion. This
requires that the old API functions be able to deal with both the old
and new property lists smoothly.
Solution:
Kludge together the property list code so that they can transparently handle
dealing with both the old and new property lists
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
Code cleanups, mostly..
Description:
Work on pacifying the SGI compiler to get the generic properties working
correctly with --enable-parallel and --enable-fortran. It's not quite
fixed yet, but I need to head home and these patches help... :-/
Platforms tested:
IRIX64 6.5 (modi4)
New Features!
Description:
Start migrating the internal use of property lists in the library from the
older implementation to the new generic property lists.
Currently, only the dataset transfer property lists are migrated to the
new architecture, all the rest of the property list types are still using
the older architecture.
Also, the backward compatibility features are not implemented yet, so
applications which use dataset transfer properties may need to make the
following changes:
H5Pcreate(H5P_DATASET_XFER) -> H5Pcreate_list(H5P_DATASET_XFER_NEW)
and
H5Pclose(<a dataset transfer property list>) -> H5Pclose_list(id)
This still may have some bugs in it, especially with Fortran, but I should
be wrapping up those later today.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
Feature shift
Description:
Take out the v1.2.x compatibility stubs and put in the hooks for v1.4.x
compatibility when needed.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.3 (hawkwind)
Purpose:
Bug Fix
Description:
The way we were generating Dependencies and .depend files was broken.
If the $srcdir or other macros began with a ".", then it would match
anything and cause problems since it would then overwrite the
beginning of the header file's path.
Solution:
Wrote a Perl script which can handle this type of weirdness better.
It's only used when the environment is a GNU one with a GCC
compiler...
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
Bug Fix/Feature Add
Description:
Added new flag ("-f" and "--family") to allow user to specify which
file driver to use to open the file. If they don't specify anything,
then it defaults to the old behaviour of trying each driver in turn
until one actually opens the file.
If the driver the user specified doesn't succeed in opening the
file, then we do NOT try other file drivers.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Update
Description:
Updated the way the subsetting data is retrieved. It now does it one
row of blocks at a time. It may still run out of memory, but this is
at least a good first step.
Also, the start parameter defaults to (0, 0, ...) if it isn't
specified.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Feature Add
Description:
This is the first (alpha) version of h5tools which does subsetting
according to the subsetting document. There's still some niceties
which need to be worked out, but this is the ground work.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
fixing the format of dumper output for windows test
Description:
New dumptest includes the feature that an error of the output will be put into stderr in linux
On windows, that stderr will not be redirected into the output file and the comparsion between the expected file and the dumper output is not correct.
Solution:
change fprintf(stderr .....) at h5tool_util.c into fprintf(stdout ......) so that it fits the comparison.
Platforms tested:
windows 2000
Code Cleanup
Description:
Moved some code out which wasn't specific to the h5tools into the
h5tools_utils and h5tools_str modules. Also started on adding the
subsetting feature to the dumping.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Code Movement
Description:
Moved some functions which worked only with the h5tools_str_t
structure from the h5tools module to the h5tools_str module.
Platforms tested:
Linux
New Modules
Description:
Separated the "generic" functions out of the h5tools module into
their own separate module to make things a bit nicer to deal with.
Platforms tested:
Linux
More Subsetting
Description:
Wanted to do a check-in of the current subsetting stuff. The
command-line parsing was already in there. I now added the feature to
the h5dump_t structure and it now outputs the new SUBSET DDL stuff in
the correct format. It doesn't yet do the actual subsetting, but
we're getting there...
Platforms tested:
Linux
Bug Fix
Description:
Some platforms (gondolin) don't necessarily have the vsnprintf
function.
Solution:
Changed it to HDvsnprintf and added a header for H5private to include
it...
Platforms tested:
Linux
Bug Fix
Description:
We were trying to build the talign test program before the library
was actually built.
Solution:
Moved talign test to the lib directory since it belongs with the
library anyway.
Platforms tested:
Linux
