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

[Vladimir FONOV]

Hello,

Andrew Janke wrote:
>> 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.
I have even tried to compile minc 2.0.19 with this netcdf4 compiled with 
HDF5 support, but got a lot of errors. Apparently, they have changed the 
API

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Best regards,
  Vladimir S. FONOV ~ v.s.fonov  <at> ilmarin.info