[Opengrads-devel] Fwd: Opengrads bundle 2.0.a9 being uploaded

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

This reply went out to Arlindo only, and I wanted the entire list to  
see it. --Jennifer

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jennifer Adams <jm...@co...>
> Date: October 4, 2010 4:22:17 PM EDT
> To: Arlindo da Silva <da...@al...>
> Subject: Re: [Opengrads-devel] Opengrads bundle 2.0.a9 being uploaded
>
> Arlindo, et al.,
> I'm glad to hear that 2.0.a9 is behaving well with opengrads. I have  
> not heard any complaints about a9 so far. As for the OS X builds, I  
> have not upgraded to snow leopard yet, but Brian has, so I will  
> likely be putting out three OS X releases next time. I will keep  
> doing the powerpc builds until one of the supplib upgrades breaks  
> something.
>
> Regarding the supplibs, I have been working on the switch to cairo  
> for graphics rendering. At the moment, I am only working in the mac  
> environment, using the macports installation of cairo, so I don't  
> really know what the issues are regarding building from source, or  
> for the autoconfiguration. If any of you can provide some guidance,  
> especially for the autoconf stuff, it would be most welcome. There  
> must be some existing code out there that does this, maybe already  
> in opengrads, but I haven't looked for it yet.
> --Jennifer
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Arlindo da Silva wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>>   I have finished merging COLA's latest 2.0.a9 with our code base  
>> and started uploading binaries to sf.net. Now that the colorized  
>> text feature is in COLA's codebase merging is becoming easier. The  
>> only thing I have to do is to add the hooks for the extensions  
>> which is localized in a couple of places, and some mods in the main  
>> grads.c mainly for the windows and java builds. (I am not  
>> distributing the java builds yet.)
>>
>>   Not many updates in the extensions this time. As per Jennifer  
>> request, I have dropped the shape extension altogether (last time  
>> it was hidden, this time I didn't even build it.) I also had to  
>> make a small (but subtle) change in the LATS extension because of  
>> some internal change in the main grads codebase. This was good, the  
>> revised LATS is more robust this now.
>>
>> Snow Leopard update.  I have a 99% functional build on Mac OS X  
>> 10.6 (Snow Leopard, 64 bits). All seems to work fine with the core  
>> grads functionality from COLA. I only have an issue with the LATS  
>> extension, in particular when writing GRIB-1 files -- the netcdf/ 
>> hdf output works just fine. I suspect it has something to do with  
>> the size of integers. Until I fix this I'll not release the SNow  
>> Leopard build.  The good news for Jennifer is that her builds  
>> should work out of the box on SL.
>>
>> Jose,
>>
>>    When you have a chance, could you make the FreeBSD builds? Thanks.
>>
>>    Cheers,
>>
>>     Arlindo
>>
>> -- 
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Calverton, MD 20705
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