Re: [Opengrads-devel] tclgrads

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

Jose,

  Thanks. I'll take a look at your code and get back to you. Do you
have a sourceforge account? I'd need your userid to give you check in
privileges to our repository.

     Arlindo


On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Jose F. Nieves <ni...@lt...> wrote:
> Arlindo
>
> Thanks for your message.
>
>> Right now we have released the Perl and Python interfaces, and Luiz
>> Rodrigo has contributed a PHP interface that is still in development.
>> I have had a query at some point about a TCL interface but we are not
>> working on one. So, your effort would be much appreciated.
>>
>> You may want to know that way back someone wrote a TCL/TK graphical
>> user interface for GrADS that you can find here:
>>
>>            ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/sprite/XGrads/xgrads.win32.tar
>>
>> If I am not mistaken, this uses the "expect" package to interact with
>> the GrADS command line. It has not been maintained in a while, so I am
>> not sure whether it works with current GrADS releases. One recent
>> development that was not available then -- and it is now --- is the
>> ability to capture error conditions from GrADS (the command line
>> option -u); this is very important for you to perform error handling.
>
> I discovered by accident the xml-style of output and it is used by
> the preliminary interfacet that I am using.
>
>>
>> Now for the Perl and Python interfaces I've been trying to keep the
>> "API" sort of consistent among all the interfaces. It would be nice if
>> you could keep some level consistency between the TCL and the Perl and
>> Python interfaces. You can find more information about the Perl/Python
>> interfaces here:
>>
>>      http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Python_Interface_to_GrADS
>>      http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Perl_Interface_to_GrADS
>>
>> Luiz Rodrigo, who subscribes to this list, may be able to update you
>> on where he is with the PHP interface. The last prototype he sent me
>> was already very functional, we just need to complete the
>> documentation and release it on sf.net.
>
> I checked the perl interface which I understand better then python
> and I believe the eseential ideas are similar, of course the details
> differ since the languages are so different. Anyway I can
> incorporate suggestions as soon as I get some feedback.
>
>> So, if you already have an sketch of an interface that you would like
>> us to look over please send it to this list and we will be glad to
>> send you feedback. As for distributing through OpenGrADS I need to ask
>> you a couple of questions:
>>
>> 1) Are you willing to release your tcl interface under an opensource
>> license? GPL is preferred, but any license acceptable to SourceForge
>> (our host) is fine too.
>
> I use the BSD license, which I suppose is fine.
>
>>
>> 2) Are you willing to maintain a simple wiki page at opengrads.org
>> with information about installation and usage of your interface?
>
>
> I think I can do it.
>
>>
>> 3) Would you be able to support the package by answering to bug
>> reports on our tracker? We understand that people need to work around
>> their own schedule, so you do not need to fix things immediately, but
>> if the package is to be listed as "actively maintained" you need to so
>> periodically, at least a couple of times a year.
>>
>
> I update the software that I write as soon as I find a fix for
> an error report. So this should not be a problem either.
>
>>  I look forward to working with you.
>>
>>  Best Regards,
>>
>>         Arlindo
>
>
> I am sending a snapshot of the current package. To run the tests
> you probably have to change the #! line at the top of the scripts.
> This is still preliminary and not intended for general distribution,
> but feel free to distribute it to people you work with. What I would
> like to do is to have a simple basic package (not too different in scope
> from the current one) and build gradually a higher level library on top
> of it.
>
> Regards
>
> Jose F Nieves
>
>



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