How close is the release? Can I get a quick fix into the codes?

mike jackson

On Oct 24, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Elena Pourmal <[email protected]> wrote:

> I apologize for the error in my email below. It should read "PyTables 
> maintainers" instead of "H5Py maintainers" :-)
> 
> Elena
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Elena Pourmal  The HDF Group  http://hdfgroup.org   
> 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820
> 217.531.6112
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Elena Pourmal <[email protected]>
>  wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> 
>> We investigated the problem reported by the H5Py maintainers. The issue goes 
>> back to the 1.8.2 release when an assertion was introduce to catch errors in 
>> the file format. 
>> 
>> The 
>> https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/raw/master/tables/tests/ex-noattr.h5 
>> file is an example of such file - it contains a wrong version (1 instead of 
>> 2) of the array datatype in a header message. 
>> 
>> The symptom will be a failure of the HDF5 read utilities like h5dump or h5ls 
>> when HDF5 library is built in development mode or when 
>> --enable-strict-format-checks configure flag is used to configure the HDF5 
>> library. 
>> 
>> h5dump (when used with the --enable-error-stack flag) shows the following 
>> errors at the bottom of the produced error stack:
>> 
>> ./h5dump --enable-error-stack ex-noattr.h5
>> ……
>> …. H5Odtype.c line 550 in H5O_dtype_decode_helper(): incorrect array 
>> datatype version
>>     major: Datatype
>>     minor: Wrong version number
>> h5dump error: internal error (file h5dump.c:line 1615)
>> 
>> The problem can be mitigated by repacking the file with h5repack. The tool 
>> has to be built using the HDF5 library in production mode (this is default 
>> for the official releases). The HDF5 library skips file format checks on 
>> read and writes the correct header to the new file.
>> 
>> Elena
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Elena Pourmal  The HDF Group  http://hdfgroup.org   
>> 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820
>> 217.531.6112
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:26 PM, Elena Pourmal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Andrea,
>>> 
>>> Thank you for report! We will take a look.
>>> 
>>> Elena
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:03 PM, "Andrea Bedini" <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Elena,
>>>> 
>>>> an user has reported some issues using PyTables with the rc1 and when I 
>>>> had a look I stumbled into this:
>>>> 
>>>> $ ../hdf5-1.8.12-pre1/hdf5/bin/h5dump tables/tests/ex-noattr.h5 
>>>> h5dump error: internal error (file h5dump.c:line 1471)
>>>> 
>>>> ex-noattr.h5 is part of PyTables' test suite and it's available at the 
>>>> following link 
>>>> https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/raw/master/tables/tests/ex-noattr.h5
>>>> 
>>>> The file works perfectly with 1.8.11. A backtrace (which I assume to be 
>>>> related to the issue but it might not be), is available here 
>>>> https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/issues/290
>>>> 
>>>> Can anyone have a look?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Andrea
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 9 October 2013 12:15, Elena Pourmal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Dear HDF5 users,
>>>> 
>>>> A pre-release candidate of HDF5 1.8.12 is available for testing and can be 
>>>> downloaded from the following location:
>>>> 
>>>> ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.12/pre1/
>>>> 
>>>> We will greatly appreciate if you test this pre-release on the platform(s) 
>>>> of your choice and report any problems found to this list as soon as 
>>>> possible. We have about three weeks to address the issues.
>>>> 
>>>> The list of new features, bug fixes, and platforms tested by The HDF Group 
>>>> can be found in the 
>>>> ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.12/pre1/hdf5-1.8.12-pre1-RELEASE.txt
>>>>  file.
>>>> 
>>>> The new release includes but is not limited to:
>>>> 
>>>>    - Support for Windows 8.1
>>>>    - Support for OpenVMS on Itanium 64
>>>>    - Fixes to gcc 4.8.x problems reported on FORUM
>>>>    - Enhancements to h5repack to support user-defined filters as described 
>>>> in section 6.2 of
>>>>      
>>>> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Advanced/DynamicallyLoadedFilters/HDF5DynamicallyLoadedFilters.pdf
>>>>    - An option to specify default plugin directories at the HDF5 
>>>> configuration time using
>>>>      --with-default-plugin=location (configure)
>>>>      -DH5_DEFAULT_PLUGINDIR:PATH=location (CMake)
>>>>    - New command-line options to h5dump
>>>>         + Print an object specified by its path
>>>>         + Exclude printing of attributes
>>>> 
>>>> Happy testing and we look forward to hearing from you (hopefully no bugs 
>>>> :-)!
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> 
>>>> Elena
>>>> 


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