Re: [h5md-user] increasing order of "time" dataset

[Peter Colberg]

On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 09:57:44AM +0200, Felix Höfling wrote:
> It does actually not break backwards compatibility as the difference is
> relevant only for equality comparisons of floating-point numbers, which is
> strictly discouraged. Thus I think the slightly relaxed condition would make
> H5MD a bit more flexible.

I noted that it breaks backwards compatibility to make you aware that
this seemingly minor change requires a bump of the major version number.
The values of a dataset can, e.g., be stored in a hash table with the
times as keys, since H5MD 1.0 ensures that the times are unique.

Peter