[Paraview-developers] Moving to hdf5-1.8.x

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

That sounds reasonable. Does that work John?

Utkarsh

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> Can we target the next patch release (3.8.2 I guess) for this? It will
> be 3 months (or less) after the 3.8 branch.
>
> -berk
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> I understand your pain :), but this is just too late to commit such a
>> (arguably) major change. We are planning on a CVS freeze come Tuesday
>> and a branch on Friday. Besides it's only a matter of few months
>> before the next official release of ParaView, so you can soon tell
>> your users that yours plugins will work against an official release.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:
>>> It is a big change conceptually speaking, but there are few places that are actually using it in paraview - a handful of readers and that's about it really.
>>>
>>> I am trying to kill pv-meshless off and use only plugins, but unless I upgrade paraview cvs, I need to maintain my own version - which will be easier with git, but not as nice as telling people that 3.8 is compatible. (also, paraview 3.8, hdf 1.8 - see how they rhyme. It's almost like they belong together).
>>>
>>> JB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Berk Geveci [mailto:berk.geveci at kitware.com]
>>>> Sent: 18 March 2010 21:02
>>>> To: Biddiscombe, John A.
>>>> Cc: paraview-developers at paraview.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] Moving to hdf5-1.8.x
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I see. I didn't realize that you wanted it in 3.8. That's
>>>> Utkarsh's call. Making such a big change  (is it big? I am guessing
>>>> so) 1 week before branch is a bit risky. I'd suggest checking it in
>>>> after 3.8, let it mature for a few months and have it be official in
>>>> 3.10 (or 4.0 whatever it is called).
>>>>
>>>> -berk
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Berk
>>>> >
>>>> >> I vote for (2). I also vote for waiting until after we branch 3.8 and
>>>> >> after we switch to Git (which will follow the 3.8 branch by a week or
>>>> >> two). In all, it will probably be around 4 weeks before we switch to
>>>> >> Git.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > As long as I can get it into 3.8 - then I will be happy to wait for git
>>>> etc.
>>>> >
>>>> > JB
>>>> >
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