Re: [Opengrads-devel] Merged and checked in GrADS 2.0.a2

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

Mods to the build system are on my list of important things to work  
on, but they have been trumped by my list of urgent things to do  
right away. I will rework the build scripts when we add geotiff and  
shapefile output.
Jennifer

On May 11, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Arlindo da Silva wrote:

> All,
>
>    I have just merged and checked in COLA's latest release. As  
> before, none of our patches have made to the COLA release, it is  
> does not build transparently with the supplibs-2.0.1. In addition  
> to the merge, I have implemented a couple of small enhancements to  
> "fwrite" to allow me to better interface GrADS v2 to python/perl,  
> although the patch to enable fwrite to work with named pipes  
> (FIFOs) may be of general interest. I also added a set of Grib-2  
> specific tests to pytests. See ChangeLog below for details.
>
> To check out this version:
>
> % gacvs co -P -r grads-2_0_a2-oga-1
>
>  It builds out of the box with the supplibs-2.0.1.
>
>  Jennifer, as always, you are more than welcome to incorporate  
> these patches to your codebase if you are interested.


>
>   Cheers!
>
>      Arlindo
>
> From the ChangeLog:
>
> 2008-05-10 <da...@op...>, Version GrADS 2.0.a2.oga.1
>         * merged GRADS2_DEV_BRANCH with COLA's v2.0.a2.
>         * From COLAS e-mail annoucing v2.0.a2:
>             Features:
>             * ready for use with GDS-2.0 to access 5-dimensional data
>               sets via OPeNDAP
>             * support for thinned grib2 grids
>             * gribmap has -0 option for grib2
>             * allows non-float data types for hdf coordinate axes
>             Bug Fixes:
>             * memory leak when replacing an existing defined variable
>             * multiple fixes for netcdf/hdf handling (templating,
>               zrev, %nodim%, et al.)
>             * contour interval and label handling for double  
> precision numbers
>             * changed 'query dims' output for ensembles
>             * fixed gribmap's handling of data sets templated over  
> T but not E
>             * fixed 'set annot' command and other minor bugs
>         * Added Grib-2 specific tests to pytests/
>         * src/gagx.c: Enhancements to fwrite in function gafwrt():
>             * When fwrite output file name is "-" output is sent to  
> STDOUT
>             * Now uses stat() rather fopen(...,"r") to check is the  
> file already
>                 exists. This is important for using fwrite on FIFOs  
> - a deadlock
>                 occurs if a FIFO is opened for both read/write by a  
> process.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jennifer Adams <jm...@co...>
> Date: Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:40 PM
> Subject: NEW RELEASE of GrADS 2.0.a2
> To: GRA...@li...
>
>
> Dear All,
> I have posted a new version of GrADS:  2.0.a2. This version has  
> several new features and important bug fixes. The GrADS downloads  
> web page (http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html) has also been  
> updated with links to the source code and two binary releases (more  
> binaries to follow as soon as possible).
>
>     Features:
>     * ready for use with GDS-2.0 to access 5-dimensional data sets  
> via OPeNDAP
>     * support for thinned grib2 grids
>     * gribmap has -0 option for grib2
>     * allows non-float data types for hdf coordinate axes
>
>     Bug Fixes:
>     * memory leak when replacing an existing defined variable
>     * multiple fixes for netcdf/hdf handling (templating, zrev, % 
> nodim%, et al.)
>     * contour interval and label handling for double precision numbers
>     * changed 'query dims' output for ensembles
>     * fixed gribmap's handling of data sets templated over T but not E
>     * fixed 'set annot' command and other minor bugs
>
> This release is a companion for GDS 2.0, which can now serve 5-D  
> data sets. COLA is running a 2nd GDS for testing on port 9191 that  
> is serving everything on the 9090 server plus GFS ensemble  
> forecasts. Check 'em out at
>      http://monsoondata.org:9191/dods/gfsens/
> A public release of GDS 2.0 is forthcoming -- we are still testing.  
> If you'd like to help, please try using the 9191 server.
>
> Please post comments and questions and bug reports here (low-tech  
> bug tracking is still in use at COLA). As always, I must be able to  
> reproduce a problem on my own systems in order to fix it, so keep  
> that in mind when reporting bugs.
>
> Jennifer
>
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> Jennifer M. Adams
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> Arlindo da Silva
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