Re: [Opengrads-devel] dynamic supplibs checking

[Patrice D. <per...@fr...>]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:45:46PM -0400, Arlindo da Silva wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Patrice Dumas <per...@fr...> wrote:
> 
> Or even for v1.9; in going to the new libdap there have been API level
> changes that make it impossible to build against an old libdods. Being
> able to use an old libgadods with gcc-2.95 is just too much trouble
> and in my judgement, not worth it.

libgadap/libgadods is not grads. There is an interface between them. The
gadap/gadods interface may be stable and hide the libdap changes.

> Perhaps we could take a bold step: build just one grads which is
> nc-dap enabled; and have "gradsnc" built as an option for those who
> need it. One could certainly try it out and see if the users can live
> with a single grads.  My guess is that it would work just fine. So,
> you just add a single switch

That could be doable, since libnc-dap also brings in netcdf support. So
to have gradsnc one would build with different options and it wouldn't
be possible to have both in one build. Is it what you are proposing?

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Pat