Hi Marco,

The global constants were changed to references to remove multiple memory 
leaks, therefore we need to bump the C++ interface number.  I'm sorry for the 
inconvenience but it can't be avoided.

Thank you for your long-time support,
Binh-Minh

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From: Hdf-forum <[email protected]> on behalf of Marco 
Atzeri <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 12:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] HDF 1.8.16-pre2 release candidate is available for 
testing

On 30/10/2015 21:12, Larry Knox wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> A second pre-release candidate version of HDF5 1.8.16 is available for
> testing and can be downloaded at the following link:
>
> https://gamma.hdfgroup.org/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.16-pre2/
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>
> The effect on the numbers from HDF5-1.8.15-patch1 to HDF5-1.8.16 was to
> increase libhdf5.so.10.0.1 to libhdf5.so.10.1.0, libhdf5_cpp.so.10.0.1
> to libhdf5_cpp.so.11.0.0, and all other wrapper library files from
> libhdf5*.so.10.0.1 to libhdf5*.so.10.0.2.

Question:
- is it really needed to implement a new API bump for C++ interface ?

The continuous API bump forces to maintain several legacy version
of the library and/or to recompile every time the software depending
on the library.
Library API should be as stable as possible.

Only ImageMagick is worst than HDF5 for the packages that I am
managing for cygwin.

> Larry

Regards
Marco

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