Re: HDF5 Output

On Thursday 23 July 2009, kevinb wrote:
> Has any thought been put into HDF5 output from Gnucap?

There have been other requests for it.

> Al, do you have any considerations or specifications if we
> (Analog Rails) were to add such a feature?

The plan is to make the output a plugin, like everything else.  
There will be a base class and dispatcher.  Plugins for 
different outputs will be derived from that.  Outputs will not 
be restricted to just file formats.  There can be plugins to 
directly interface to post-processors and display programs.

The only reason it isn't yet is that there have been lots of 
changes since the last stable release, and testing and 
documentation had not kept up, so I decided to temporarily 
freeze new features to work on documentation and testing and 
make a stable release.  I don't want to delay that stable 
release any more than it already is.

For now, hack it into s__out.cc, and plan for an interface 
change soon after the 0.40 release comes out.

al.