This post is an update of one originally published in September 2024. We’ve updated it with some of the features available in the next HDF5 library release 2.0: Introduction to CMake presets and how they can be used when building the library, new ROS3 backend, and building the library with a faster DEFLATE compression filter. […]

Virtual environments are very popular method for ordinary computer users to install software into an isolated space without assistance from their system administrators. The conda package manager is one of the most widely used tools for managing virtual environments. We are going to install software only from the conda-forge package repository, which is a community GitHub organization that maintains a large number of software packages.