Re: [Opengrads-devel] Building GrADS v2 with new supplibs: almost there

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

All,
1)   Regarding versioning. COLA is considered in this case the real
'upstream' maintainer of GrADS. If COLA releases version M.m.r (M=major,
m=minor, r=revision), any opengrads revisions of this tag will be denoted

        M.m.r.oga.i

where i = 1, 2, ... is an "increment". My real hope is that this versioning
becomes internal between the 2 groups and that as much as possible we try to
have public releases off COLA's M.m.r versions.

Jennifer: Is this acceptable to you?

2)  As I said before, my current work on the 2.0.a0 sources is meant to
enable it to compile with the new supplibs, and reconcile the bug
fixes/robustness improvements we (mostly Pat) made to the v1.9 build.
It will also include the test suite "pytests". Once I am done with it, I'll
submit the mods to COLA in the hope that, after review and patches of their
own they will put out a new M.m.r release, say 2.0.a1.  I'll then re-import
 the new M.m.r release into our repository and this version will serve as a
new baseline for any future development out of the
opengrads.orgrepository. At this point, if Brian/Jennifer requests, I
can help making
"out of the box" builds with this version for eventual posting at COLA's
official download site.

Jennifer: is this acceptable to you?

3) As I mentioned in the opengrads.org web page, opengrads public releases
may occur when we need patches to enable our latest extensions. If there is
no such need, there shall be no opengrads release.  Of course, we may not
always agree, and at some point a patch we require may not be acceptable to
COLA. If we ever get to that point we will be tracking COLA releases with
the necessary patches and the scheme above will be used to identify our
versions. I hope we never get to that point.

4) BTW, we have had over 300 downloads of v1.9.0-rc1. Except for a glitch in
the Win32 build which I have since then fixed, I haven't heard any complaint
about the other binaries. I got few "thank you" saying that they finally got
a working gradsdods, so updating to the new libdap may have done the trick.
Let's keep our fingers crossed.  People are also happy with the new Win32
build. Now that companies are locking down PC's good (to the point that
people cannot even change environment variables such as PATH), having
something that runs off a memory stick with no installation seems to help.

  Have a nice weekend everyone!

      Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
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