graphics/opendx and dropping science/hdf
Mikhail Teterin
mi+kde at aldan.algebra.com
Thu Apr 8 07:20:06 PDT 2004
Hello!
I intend to drop the science/hdf port. It was obsoleted by hdf5 long ago
(was it?), it breaks on some some 64bit platforms, it conflicts with
math/netcdf.
All the technical issues are, probably, fixable, but the obsoleteness
makes them not worth the effort. Or so it seems.
The only port relying on science/hdf is graphics/opendx and only if
WITH_HDF is defined. Unfortunately, opendx does not (yet?) support hdf5.
So...
. Does hdf5 really obsolete hdf4?
. Does hdf support add much value to opendx at all,
or can we just remove it?
. If not, should I (or some other helping hand) try to patch
opendx to use hdf5?
or
. bring the old hdf4 into the 21st century (fixing the types,
depending on math/netcdf instead of building its own)?
Thanks for any ideas,
-mi
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