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authorQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2000-11-27 23:00:18 (GMT)
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[svn-r3004] Purpose:
Feature description. Description: Describe the v1.2 compatibility configure switch Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.2 (hawkwind)
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for further details.
5.3.12. Backward compatibility
- The 1.4 version of the HDF5 library can be configured to enable
- access to functions that were present in the 1.2 version, but removed
- from the current version with the '--enable-hdf5v1_2' configure
- flag.
+ The 1.4 version of the HDF5 library can be configured to operate
+ identically to the v1.2 library with the '--enable-hdf5v1_2' configure
+ flag. This allows existing code to be compiled with the v1.4 library
+ without requiring immediate changes to the application source code.
+ This flag will only be supported in the v1.4 branch of the library,
+ it will not be available in v1.5+.
5.3.13. Network stream capability
The HDF5 library can be configured with a network stream file