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Ed, Sounds good to me. I have a few questions (to everyone not to Ed only :-) On which platforms netcdf-4 was tested? Who will provide netcdf-4 user support, bug tracking and initial bug investigation? When the new HDF5 version comes out, who is responsible for testing netcdf-4? How do we coordinate the two libraries release schedule? I am sure that there are some other maintenance/support issues. It would be nice if we can talk about them before the NetCDF users start to bombard our helpdesk with email messages :-) There are some users who use netcdf-?old? in HDF4 to read NetCDF files. We are testing now that HDF4 can read 3.5 files. Now... what about netcdf-4 files? Thank you! Elena ------------------------------------------------------------ Elena Pourmal, HDF QA, Maintenance and Support Team Leader NCSA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 605 E. Springfield Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 epourmal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (217)333-0238 (office) (217)244-1987 (fax) ------------------------------------------------------------ On 3 Dec 2003, Ed Hartnett wrote: > > Howdy all! > > As I prepare the fist tarball for netcdf-4 I am musing about some > interesting distribution requirements we have. > > Here's the section from the requirements (I just added the last one > this morning.) The entire requirements document can be found as always > at http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/netcdf-4/reqs.html > > Distribution with both netCDF and HDF5 packages > > * The netCDF-4 library is distrubuted by both Unidata and NCSA. > > * The netCDF-4 library requires that HDF5 (version 1.8.0 or > greater) be installed. > > * The netCDF-4 library can coexist peacefully with the netCDF-3 > library, but both cannot be used in the same program. > > * Potential users can select from a number of distributions, > depending on whether they already have netCDF-3 and/or HDF5 > installed. Whatever the circumstance, users should be able to > install netcdf-4 in one pass through the usual configure/make > install/make check cycle. > > What do we all think of those requirements. Anyone object to any, or > want to add to them? > > Thanks, > > Ed >
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