Greetings all,
We are pleased to announce that the netCDF-C and netCDF-Fortran
libraries are now hosted on GitHub, joining other Unidata projects such
as THREDDS (including netCDF-Java), IDV, GEMPACK and LDM.
The Unidata GitHub repository is located at:
* http://github.com/Unidata
The netCDF repositories are located at:
* http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c
<http://github.com/Unidata/netCDF-cxx4>
* http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-fortran
<http://github.com/Unidata/netCDF-Fortran>
* http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-cxx4
<http://github.com/Unidata/netCDF-cxx4>
Documentation, historic downloads and Windows binaries will continue to
be made available through the netCDF portal hosted on the Unidata website:
* http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf
Starting with our next release candidate (tentatively slated for later
this week, official announcement to come), source downloads will be made
available from GitHub:
* http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/releases
Working developer copies (which are not guaranteed to be stable) may be
fetched from GitHub using the|git|command. For example, the individual
projects may be fetched as follows:
$ git clone http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c.git
$ git clone http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-fortran.git
$ git clone http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-cxx4.git
For those unfamiliar with git and GitHub, no user account is required;
anonymous access is supported. GitHub also hosts a series of tutorials
and screencasts:
* https://help.github.com/articles/where-can-i-learn-more-about-git-and-github
There are a number of free GUI front-ends for git, including the GitHub
GUI software, and SourceTree for Windows and OSX. A list may be found here:
* http://git-scm.com/downloads/guis
Source releases will still be accessible from the Unidata website, as
will binary releases (currently, only binaries for Windows are generated).
We are excited about this change, and look forward to answering any
questions that may arise.
The netCDF Team,
Russ, Dennis and Ward
