[Info-vax] HDF5 going going, perhaps soon gone from VMS?

[Joukj]

Dirk Munk wrote:
> IanD wrote:
>> HDF5 is a total rework of HDF4 to the point where HDF5 should be 
>> considered a new work altogether, in fact the custodians of the HDF 
>> data format say they wished they had not even used HDR5 as the new 
>> name given that there is nothing between the two other than a 
>> sequential name in terms of the underlining structure
>>
>> It also seems HDF5 is gaining ground out there in the scientific world 
>> (this is coming from the Scipy crowd etc)
>>
>> Once upon a time VMS had some stature in the scientific world but 
>> alas, it gave up that title long ago :-(
>>
>> Now it seems, in HDF5 circles anyway, that VMS is to be (or has been) 
>> erased from the source code
>>
>> http://lists.hdfgroup.org/pipermail/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org/2015-March/008397.html 
>>
>>
>> So, if it is not too late and you care and use HDF5 or think it's a 
>> good thing to retain for VMS going forward then perhaps you might want 
>> to get in contact with the folks at HDF to stop 'VMS' being purged 
>> from the source code
>>
> 
>  From this link:
> 
> ftp://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src/unpacked/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
> 
> - VMS Build/Test Files Have Been Removed
> 
> HDF5 no longer supports VMS, and the files were getting out of date.
> Since we have no access to a VMS machine, there is no way for us to
> maintain them.
> 
> A Subversion tag was created at:
> 
> https://svn.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/tags/vms_last_support_1_8
> 
> immediately before removing the files.
> 
> (DER - 2015-02-26, HDFFV-9147

The last version of HDF5 I tried to build was 1.8.11 (see needed patches 
at http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#HDF5lib ) both 
for Alpha and Itannium.
The tests are passed for at least 99%.
The patch also include a "work-around" for a really strange bug in the 
C-compiler for Itanium.

If I find some time I'll try to merge this version with the new 1.8.15 
version and the dropped VMS-support and see if I can get something working.