Re: [Opengrads-devel] grads vs gradsdap in v2

[Jennifer A. <jm...@co...>]

In a couple of years the Unidate netcdf library will have swallowed  
up libnc-dap (see below), so gradsdap is the one that will eventually  
be phased out. Until then, I feel it's better to link grads with the  
Unidata library and gradsdap with OPeNDAP version. Then when nc4 is  
ready (it's waiting for hdf5 to come out of beta status), we can link  
grads with nc4 library and leave gradsdap alone. I am trying to keep  
the data formats and their supplibs and their code paths in GrADS  
untangled. The HDF Group is also thinking about developing an OPeNDAP  
client library for HDF5, so that may be another complicating factor.

Here's the announcement from James Gallagher (dated October 14th, 2007):

"We (OPeNDAP) are pleased to say that NSF has funded a
proposal for the netCDF client library software to migrate into the
Unidata code base for netCDF. This will entail rewriting the netCDF
client library to use the recently developed C API for DAP 2. The
effort will last two years and will take place both at OPeNDAP and
Unidata."


Jennifer

On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Arlindo da Silva wrote:

> Jennifer,
>
>   Does the executable "grads" have any feature not covered in  
> "gradsdap"? If not, is "grads" really necessary? Sure, nc-dap is  
> bloated, but nc-dap should be considered robust enough by now. You  
> could have gone all the way and have a single executable called  
> "grads", and only on those platforms where OPeNDAP cannot be build  
> we build it with NetCDF. What were your thoughts for not having a  
> single executable at this point?
>
>         Arlindo
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