Heads Up: HDF5 Drops Autotools March 10th

[loricooperhdf]

The day has arrived: the day we've all been dreading—or eagerly anticipating, depending on your perspective. Yes, we're switching to CMake-only builds in HDF5. Prepare yourselves.

The PR stripping all autotools will go into the "develop" branch on March 10, 2025. HDF5 2.0, scheduled for release in Fall 2025, will only support the CMake build system.

If you’d like to learn more about this decision, check out this blog post from November 2022: Can we remove the autotools? And the HDF5 2.0 planning wiki. If you use autotools for your builds, now is a great time to update your workflows to CMake.