Re: Alternate direction for netCDF-4

• To: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Alternate direction for netCDF-4
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:20:14 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Russ Rew wrote:

> Randy,
>
> > BTW, do you have anyone working on netCDF-perl these days?  Does it
> > support Perl-5.8?

Randy,

no, there is no workaround for using netCDF-perl with Perl-5.8. we tried
to find one but all attempts failed, it's just a bad version. But, we have
success using netCDF-perl with Perl-5.8.3 and Perl-5.8.4. on both solaris
and linux os's. we have a couple machines running the netCDF decoders package
that use netCDF-perl in real time without problems for over a year.  I
think the lastest linux versions come with Perl-5.8.4 or  a perl
upgrade should be backward compatiable with your code.

Robb...



>
> Although Steve Emmerson is nominally assigned responsibility for
> netcdf-perl, in reality he's working 110% on other things and I'm just
> hoping I can get some of his time in the next year to update udunits.
>
> I know you identified a long-standing bug with building netCDF-perl
> under Perl 5.8.  I'm Cc:ing Robb Kambic, the only other Perl developer
> at Unidata, and see if he may know anything about the bug or a
> workaround:
>
>   
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/getfile?file=/content/support/help/MailArchives/netcdf/msg02318.html
>
> If Robb doesn't know about this, we may have to wait for Perl-6 ...
>
> --Russ
>

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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