Why so many versions of the port science/hdf?

[Michel Talon]

The ports, different from octave, which use hdf, are, i think obtained
from the following:
in /usr/ports
jail1% grep hdf INDEX-8|awk -F "|" '{print $1}'|grep -v octave
gmsh-2.4.2_5
gmsh-occ-2.4.2_5
salome-5.1.4_1
salome-geom-5.1.4_1
salome-gui-5.1.4_1
salome-jobmanager-5.1.4_1
salome-kernel-5.1.4_1
salome-light-5.1.4_1
salome-med-5.1.4_1
salome-multipr-5.1.4_1
salome-netgenplugin-5.1.4_1
salome-randomizer-5.1.4_1
salome-sierpinsky-5.1.4_1
salome-smesh-5.1.4_1
salome-visu-5.1.4_1
salome-yacs-5.1.4_1
py27-tables-2.2.1
fr-aster-10.3.0.3_1
fr-gibi-2003.2_15
fr-homard-9.8.1
fr-med-2.3.6_3
grads-1.9b4_3
p5-NetCDF-1.2.4
scilab-5.3.1
scilab-toolbox-sivp-0.5.2
scilab-toolbox-swt-0.1.11
sedumi-1.1_3
cdo-1.4.7
cgnslib-2.5.5
ecs-1.3.3_5
fvm-0.12.0_4
gnudatalanguage-0.9_1
hdf-4.2r3_6
hdf-java-2.6.1
hdf5-1.6.9_1
hdf5-1.8.5
ics-1.3.3_2
meep-1.1.1_2
minc-2.0.09_1
mpb-1.4.2_10
ncs-1.3.3_7
netcdf-ftn-4.1.1
netcdf-4.1.1
paraview-3.8.1
py27-h5py-1.2.1_1
py27-netCDF4-0.9.3
hdf-szip-2.1_1
It is easy to get from the same INDEX the required hdf port.

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Michel TALON