Hi,
I work at a data center and lot of our data is in netCDF format. We
are trying to move to netCDF-4 classic from netCDF-3 as much as
possible. But some of our users are having issues when reading the files
using netCDF-4.1.1 libraries. When reading the files, they are getting
"NetCDF: Unknown file format" error. The cause it appears is due to the
installation of the netCDF libraries without HDF support on their
systems. Isn't it possible to have a more insightful error message (in
the yet to be released versions)?- something like "It appears like the
file is written in netCDF-4/HDF-5 format which requires HDF-5 libraries
for reading. But the netCDF libraries were built without HDF support."
The users expect the latest version to read all the data created using
earlier versions.
Also, from users perspective does netCDF-4.x.x libraries built without
HDF support have any additional functionality not present in
netcdf-3.6.2 or later ? If not, why not let HDF linking mandatory when
installing netCDF-4.x.x?
Thanks for reading.
Upendra
