[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1158: ExternalLibraries/HDF5 should change the defaults for HDF5_ENABLE_CXX and HDF5_ENABLE_FORTRAN to "no".

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#1158: ExternalLibraries/HDF5 should change the defaults for HDF5_ENABLE_CXX and
HDF5_ENABLE_FORTRAN to "no".
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  Reporter:  knarf                  |       Owner:                     
      Type:  defect                 |      Status:  confirmed          
  Priority:  minor                  |   Milestone:                     
 Component:  EinsteinToolkit thorn  |     Version:  development version
Resolution:                         |    Keywords:                     
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Comment (by barry.wardell):

 In my experience the C++ bindings are pretty worthless. The last time I
 checked they were barely maintained and hadn't been updated to take
 advantage of improvements from new releases. It is straightforward to use
 the C API in C++ code and I get the impression most people implement their
 own C++ wrapper on top of that rather than using the C++ bindings. Given
 this, and the fact that the C++ bindings are disabled by default in most
 distributions, plus the conflict with, e.g. parallel support, makes a
 strong case for not having them as a requirement.

 It sounds like there is a stronger case for the fortran bindings. At the
 same time it seems unfortunate to require HDF5 to be built (since most
 system packages have not enabled Fortran bindings) when it's not required,
 just in case someone has a private thorn which uses the Fortran bindings.

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