Re: [h5md-user] File format versioning

[pdebuyl]

Hi all,

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 03:54:07PM +0200, Felix Höfling wrote:
> 
> >Felix Höfling writes:
> >
> How is this handled by other file formats? Does a Python 2.7 code
> run with a Python 2.4 interpreter? Or can Acrobat Reader 4 (=very
> old) process an encrypted 1.4 file?

I am not bringing a conclusion yet but my "idea of the day"™ is: what does the
HDF group do about it? And they have a document explaining how backward and
forward compatibility works in HDF5 :-)

http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/faq/bkfwd-compat.html

It may help us in this discussion.

Pierre