Justin Willmert

Please retry with the newly tagged JLD v0.11. I expect that will have fixed your problem.

Can you give a minimal test case to demonstrate the error? In particular, have you loaded the package which defines the type prior to loading the file? For instance, I...

I just added a new commit which brings down both the precompile and load time just a little bit. The issue was that I was defining the `getproperty`/`setproperty!` overloads on...

> So in the new change H5P is just an alias for the singleton type _H5P.H5P() ? Yes.

> Could we piggyback off of this and use these instances for functions as well? I.e. h5r_create -> H5R.create? It feels like since we are going this route perhaps we...

> Should we also fully commit to the hack and define `show` methods :trollface: ? > > ``` > Base.show(io::IO, ::typeof(H5)) = print("H5") > ``` I'd been wondering the same...

`HDF5.show_tree` is the implementation for the default 3-argument show method since v0.14. (#725)

That being said, a summary function like `h5info` that returns a `Dict` or `NamedTuple` data structure could still be useful and should be implementable.

I'm not necessarily opposed to making these changes, but: 1. I'd appreciate seeing a larger Julia-ecosystem discussion of how to handle situations like this (or have my admittedly maybe spotty...

> @jmert Would you be opposed or have any thoughts on adding something along the lines of ('pseudo-code'): Yeah, I think that kind of idea is the right way to...