Re: Objective-C wrapper for netCDF

• To: Mark Tracy <tracy454@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Objective-C wrapper for netCDF
• From: Ed Hartnett <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:20:48 -0600

Mark Tracy <tracy454@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I have written Objective-C interfaces to the basic netCDF C-library.

Wonderful!

> This started as a small piece of a larger project (reading
> chromatography data files), but I have expanded it to cover the full
> function of the netCDF library. As of version 0.4.1, I think it is
> ready enough to be tried by other people. 

> The main features are:
> *  implements netCDF-3.6.1 or higher
> *  object-oriented interface
> *  reads, writes and creates netCDF data files
> *  Macintosh version provides an installable universal binary
> framework for OSX 10.3 or higher
> *  Linux-GNUstep version is source-only, and builds a shared library
> *  API documentation in HTML
> *  sample application for testing
> *  free open-source license
>
> The packages are available at http://www.mt-se.com/nc-1 and you can
> also browse the documentation.

I've added your Objective-C API to the ones listed on the netCDF web
page:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#Objective-C

>
> While this software has worked well for me, it has not been stress
> tested with big datasets or high-performance applications. I would
> like to see how well it stands up. Also, if there are any issues
> involving trademarks or licenses, I would appreciate those comments.

No license or trademark problems with this for netCDF! It's free
software. The full license is included in the distribution.

Thanks!

Ed
-- 
Ed Hartnett  -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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