[MINC-development] MINC 2.0.19/2.1 and HDF 1.6/1.8

[Andrew Janke]

> Well I don't see a downside, we just remove all the HDF code from
> MINC2 and push everything back to netcdf. :)  (ie: remove all the
> switches).

Well on further reading I now see a downside.  netcdf4 _requires_ HDF
1.8.x so all we would be doing is shifting the netcdf->hdf glue layer
from our code to theirs.

netcdf4 also does chunking and all the other things that HDF5 does so
it is pretty obvious that it is a glue layer to HDF5.

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