[svn-r633] Changes since 19980828

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./RELEASE
	Updated with important changes I made since the second beta.

./src/H5A.c
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5Dprivate.h
./src/H5G.c
./src/H5Gprivate.h
./src/H5R.c
./src/H5Rprivate.h
./src/H5T.c
./src/H5Tprivate.h
	Any API function that used to take an `hid_t loc_id' followed
	by a `const char *name' can now take any type of object for
	the loc_id as long as the object is somehow associated with a
	file. Internally, H5G_loc() was modified to return an
	H5G_entry_t* instead of an H5G_t* so it's more general.

	Among other things, this allows one to retrieve information
	about an object like a named type or dataset without knowing
	the name of the type or dataset:

	    int
	    get_nlinks (hid_t obj)
	    {
	        H5G_stat_t	sb;
		if (H5Gstat(obj, ".", TRUE, &sb)<0) return -1;
		return sb.nlink;
	    }

./test/gheap.c
./test/istore.c
	These files needed a couple of changes because they call some
	of the internal functions whose H5G_t arguments changed to
	H5G_entry_t.

./src/H5A.c
	Got rid of all the switch statements for getting symbol table
	entries for varous objects and replaced them with a call to
	H5G_loc() allowing attributes to automatically apply to any
	type of object that belongs to a file.

./test/Makefile.in
	Moved the ragged array tests from the normal list of tests to
	the `make timings' target.

./test/ragged.c
	Added rewrite tests -- rewrite the rows of a dataset changing
	the number of rows and the length of each row.

./test/mtime.c
	Added a test that checks that H5Gstat() can be called with a
	dataset as the first argument.

./src/H5S.c
	Added #ifdef HAVE_PARALLEL around code to check for the
	HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES environment variable because the global
	variable that gets set is #ifdef'd.

./bin/release
	bzip2 uses .bz2 as the file extension.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index 63b8e9d..99c9662 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -7,6 +7,24 @@ Release information for hdf5-1.0.23a
 * The compression API has been replaced with a more general filter
   API.  See doc/html/Filters.html for details.
 
+* Alpha-quality 2d ragged arrays, a layer built on top of other hdf5
+  objects.  The API and storage format will almost certainly change.
+
+* More debugging support including API tracing.  See Debugging.html.
+
+* C and Fortran style 8-bit fixed-length character string types are
+  supported with space or null padding or null termination and
+  translations between them.
+
+* Added function H5Fflush() to write all cached data immediately to
+  the file.
+
+* Datasets maintain a modification time which can be retrieved with
+  H5Gstat().
+
+* The h5ls tool can display much more information, including all the
+  values of a dataset.
+
 		    CHANGES SINCE THE FIRST ALPHA
 
 * Two of the packages have been renamed.  The data space API has been