[svn-r4324] Purpose:

    New Features!
Description:
    Start migrating the internal use of property lists in the library from the
    older implementation to the new generic property lists.

    Currently, only the dataset transfer property lists are migrated to the
    new architecture, all the rest of the property list types are still using
    the older architecture.

    Also, the backward compatibility features are not implemented yet, so
    applications which use dataset transfer properties may need to make the
    following changes:
        H5Pcreate(H5P_DATASET_XFER) -> H5Pcreate_list(H5P_DATASET_XFER_NEW)
            and
        H5Pclose(<a dataset transfer property list>) -> H5Pclose_list(id)

    This still may have some bugs in it, especially with Fortran, but I should
    be wrapping up those later today.

Platforms tested:
    FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5.c b/src/H5.c
index c1ae745..bdb9fb7 100644
--- a/src/H5.c
+++ b/src/H5.c
@@ -111,24 +111,26 @@ H5_init_library(void)
      * Initialize interfaces that might not be able to initialize themselves
      * soon enough.  The file & dataset interfaces must be initialized because
      * calling H5Pcreate() might require the file/dataset property classes to be
-     * initialized.
+     * initialized.  The property interface must be initialized before the file 
+     * & dataset interfaces though, in order to provide them with the proper
+     * property classes.
      */
+    if (H5P_init()<0) {
+        HRETURN_ERROR(H5E_FUNC, H5E_CANTINIT, FAIL,
+                  "unable to initialize property list interface");
+    }
     if (H5F_init()<0) {
         HRETURN_ERROR(H5E_FUNC, H5E_CANTINIT, FAIL,
                   "unable to initialize file interface");
     }
     if (H5T_init()<0) {
         HRETURN_ERROR(H5E_FUNC, H5E_CANTINIT, FAIL,
-              "unable to initialize type interface");
+                  "unable to initialize datatype interface");
     }
     if (H5D_init()<0) {
         HRETURN_ERROR(H5E_FUNC, H5E_CANTINIT, FAIL,
                   "unable to initialize dataset interface");
     }
-    if (H5P_init()<0) {
-        HRETURN_ERROR(H5E_FUNC, H5E_CANTINIT, FAIL,
-                  "unable to initialize property list interface");
-    }
 
     /* Debugging? */
     H5_debug_mask("-all");