I, as a PnetCDF developer, have never used the term "netcdf-5".
I always use cdf-5 or cdf5 to refer the file format, as "cdf" plus
a single character (e.g. '1', '2', or '5') is the signature string
stored in the file header for I/O libraries such as NetCDF, PnetCDF,
and probably some others to tell the format.
In my opinion, "netcdf-4" is better used to refer to the library,
instead of a format, but I can see many have already use the term
for both. I simply hope the version character in the signature string
will not run out too quickly :)
Wei-keng
On Nov 1, 2017, at 3:01 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> Perhaps we should follow the example of the IP networking world and
> completely foregoe netCDF-5, heading straight to netCDF-6.
>
> gerry
>
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:44 PM, dmh@xxxxxxxx <dmh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually, the term "netcdf-5" got usurped by the
> developers of pnetcdf, which supports a slightly extended
> version of netcdf-3. The most recent versions of the netcdf-c
> library support the netcdf-5 format
> So the next available number would
> be netcdf-6.
>
> You might look at this.
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/developer/en/entry/high-performance-netcdf-4-proposal
>
> =Dennis Heimbigner
> Unidata
>
>
> On 11/1/2017 1:27 PM, Julian Kunkel wrote:
> Dear all,
> there was many years ago the April fool:
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/developer/entry/netcdf_5_format_to_be
>
> I'm just curious if there are activities known by you that actually
> move on towards any NetCDF-5 format?
>
> Regards,
> Julian
>
>
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