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authorJames Laird <jlaird@hdfgroup.org>2005-09-07 21:16:02 (GMT)
committerJames Laird <jlaird@hdfgroup.org>2005-09-07 21:16:02 (GMT)
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[svn-r11363] Purpose:
Updated release notes Description: Added md5 checksumming and configure flag checking to release notes. Platforms tested: Change only to release notes
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@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ New Features
Configuration:
--------------
+ - MD5 checksumming has been added to snapshot releases. Release
+ tarballs will be accompanied by .md5 checksum files, which can
+ be verified using the md5sum utility. -JML 2005/9/6
+ - Some configure flags are incompatible (e.g., the C++ APIs cannot
+ be built using the parallel version of HDF5). configure will now
+ output errors when some common incompatible features are used
+ together. -JML 2005/9/6
- A new API function, H5Tis_hard(), was added to the library. It
checks if a conversion function is a compiler (hard) conversion.
SLU - 2005/9/6
@@ -51,7 +58,7 @@ New Features
(for test scripts). These logs are printed to the screen only
when a test fails or when all tests in the current directory have
completed successfully.
- When tests pass, they will create a foo.chkexe or foo.chksh file.
+ When tests pass, they will create a foo.chkexe file.
This prevents the test from executing again until the test or
main library changes.
All files generated by tests (*.chkexe, *.log, and any *.h5 files