Dear Matthew and All,

I apologize for my slow response.

> On Jun 16, 2017, at 8:13 AM, Matthew Clay <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Elena,
> 
> I hope you are well.

Well...ignoring emails is not a good sign :-)

> Sorry to reopen this thread, but I just wanted to 
> check to see if the VDS limitation we previously discussed is still on 
> track to be addressed in 1.10.2.

Yes, we do want to fix it in 1.10.2. 

> 
> Thank you and The HDF Group for this feature, but it would be great if 
> we could tell HDF5 "please interpret the links in the VDS as being 
> relative to the VDS file, not the executable reading the file."

We were also thinking to provide an option to specify a path to source file(s) 
via environment variable and using an API. 

Please let me know if the proposed fixes will cover your use cases.

Thank you!

Elena 
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Best,
> Matthew
> 
> On 06/06/2016 10:17 AM, Elena Pourmal wrote:
>> Hi Matthew,
>> 
>> Yes, we plan to address this limitation in the HDF5 1.10 release 
>> (1.10.2) that will be done by the end of the year.
>> 
>> Elena
>> 
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>> 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820
>> 217.531.6112
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 6, 2016, at 8:10 AM, Matthew Clay <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I saw in the 1.10.0-patch1 release notes that:
>>> 
>>> - VDS feature limitation
>>> Currently, the path to a VDS source file is interpreted as relative to
>>> the directory where the executable program runs and not to the HDF5 file
>>> with the VDS dataset unless a full path to the source file is specified
>>> during the mapping.
>>> 
>>> Will this restriction be relaxed in the near future? We often access
>>> data from programs executed in different directories than the HDF5
>>> datasets (where the main VDS file resides). When creating the VDS file,
>>> we use relative paths to form the mapping for portability.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matthew
>>> 
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