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We have separate HDF5 and HDF5-18 packages because the latter introduced
an incompatible API to the former.  I used the "-18" suffix to indicate
this.  Unfortunately, upstream has made a soname update to some of the
libraries in the 1.8.x branch.

Currently we generate:

/sw/lib/hdf5-18/lib/libhdf5.6.dylib
/sw/lib/hdf5-18/lib/libhdf5_cpp.0.dylib
/sw/lib/hdf5-18/lib/libhdf5_hl.0.dylib
/sw/lib/hdf5-18/lib/libhdf5_hl_cpp.0.dylib

in hdf5-18-1.8.2

However, in hdf5-18-1.8.5-patch1 (latest upstream), what would be
produced is:

/sw/lib/hdf5-18/lib/libhdf5.6.dylib
/sw/lib/hdf5-18/lib/libhdf5_cpp.6.dylib
/sw/lib/hdf5-18/lib/libhdf5_hl.6.dylib
/sw/lib/hdf5-18/lib/libhdf5_hl_cpp.6.dylib

Also of note is that in the hdf5 package (older API) the library content is

/sw/lib/libhdf5.0.dylib
/sw/lib/libhdf5_hl.0.dylib

The good news is that the new upstream hdf5-1.8.5 libraries no longer
have a file overlapping with one from hdf5-1.6.x, and so the private
directory can be dispensed with.  The bad news is that, by policy, we'll
presumably want a new package name in hdf5-18 due to the soname change.

Any thoughts on a name here?  I was thinking possibly to call the
library and developer portions "hdf5.6*" and keep the executable as
"hdf5-18-bin", but that's kind of ugly.  Another option might be
"hdf5-18-6", which is also ugly.

Any thoughts?
- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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