[Opengrads-devel] Perl interface update

[Arlindo da S. <da...@al...>]

All,

  I just updated the Perl interface to bring it more in line with the
Python interface, in particular the format of the $grid metadata (used
to exchange data with GrADS) which is now remotely similar to the ESMF
(http://esmf.ucar.edu). The main documentation for the perl interface
is off the wiki:

  http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Perl_Interface_to_GrADS

Tutorials are available inside the manual pages. To get the relevant
Perl modules check them out from CVS:

% gacvs co -P contrib/interfaces/perl

Like the Python interface we need a cookbook page on the wiki. Since
you can now exchange data with PDL, there is a lot than can be done
with the Graphics capabilities of PDL, like image generation, 3D
visualization, etc. Like pygrads, gadl is a much more capable
interpreter than the classic grads command line.

Also, it would be nice to add a wiki page doing the standard GrADS
Tutorial http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/tutorial.html from the gadl
command line.

If anybody would like to hellp with any of these, let me know.

    Arlindo


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Arlindo da Silva
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