Hi John!
I hope that you can provide pure Java netCDF-4 / HDF5 writer in NetCDF-Java
library.
BTW, is Nujan [1] dead?
[1] http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~steves/nujan.html
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Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] what is status of netCDF3 vs netCDF4?
Hi all:
I thought I would clarify one small piece of the conversation:
Unidata supports two libraries, one in C and one in Java. All other Unidata
netCDF libraries are wrappers around the C library (notably C++, F77, F90, and
Python) , or the Java Library (notably matlab).
The Java library supports reading netCDF-4 files in pure Java. For writing
netCDF-4, it requires the netCDF4 C library.
A pure Python library for netcdf-3 would be easy and I'm sure has already been
done. I predict no one will ever again be foolhardy enough to write another
netCDF4 / HDF5 library that doesnt use the netCDF4 / HDF5 C libraries.
Regards,
John
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Chris Barker
<chris.barker@xxxxxxxx<mailto:chris.barker@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Quick comment on this:
a previous post seemed to imply that Python was supported. I think the C and
Fortran libraries should be top priority,
the netCDF4 python package is a wrapper around the C lib.
So it is as robust as the C lib, but also just as hard to compile!
I agree that C and Fortran are key (actually primarily C -- you should be abel
to call C from Fortran anyway) And C gets you the ability to wrap for a whole
pile of higher-level languages (Julia, Octave, R, etc....)
That leaves us with the Java world -- which does not map so easily to C
What about .net, by the way? I don't care, but maybe some folks do ;-) I have
no idea how hard it is to call C from .net languages...
-Chris
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