H5Part development and discussion

[Andreas Adelmann <andreas.adelmann AT psi.ch>]

On 01.07.10 21:43, Achim Gsell wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Mark Howison wrote:
>
>    
> > Ok, I understand the issue better now, and it seems to be one of
> > convention. The three examples you give that I am familiar with (hdf5,
> > mpich, openmpi) all feature compiler wrappers as part of the library
> > (h5cc, mpicc, etc.) and these reduce the complexity of compilation and
> > linking for the user. Since ease-of-use is one of the primary design
> > considerations for H5hut, I would argue that we either need to use a
> > single library with all language bindings, or we can use separate
> > libraries only if we also provide a set of compiler wrappers. This is
> > the type of linker call I want to avoid:
> >
> > mpicc -L(paths...) -lH5hutC -lH5hutcore -lhdf5 -lz -lm -o ...
> >
> > and replace with a wrapper as simple as:
> >
> > h5hcc -o ...
> >
> > or with a single library:
> >
> > h5cc -L(paths...) -lH5hut -o ...
> >
> > Actually, the wrapper is looking like a good option now (and also
> > agrees with the conventions for the hdf5/mpi libraries that we are
> > building on top of).
> >      
> The wrapper is a good idea! The wrapper is pretty simple and we don't have to 
> rewrite/change configure.ac and the Makefile.am's.
>
> Achim
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ok that sounds good to me too :-)
AA

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