Re: [netcdfgroup] Perl netCDF-4 support?

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• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Perl netCDF-4 support?
• From: Jim Cowie <cowie@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:08:44 -0600

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By the way, the link to the PDL::NetCDF package on the Unidata webpage
(http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#Perl) appears
to go to an inaccessible mail archive message.

Is there a URL we can go to to get information about PDL::NetCDF?

Thanks

-jim


Doug Hunt wrote:
> Hi Cathy:  I maintain the PDL::NetCDF library, which interfaces with the
> Perl Data Language extension for perl (see http://pdl.perl.org/).  This
> gives much higher performance than the normal perl netcdf interface since
> compact 'PDL' objects (n-dimensional matrices) are passed back instead of
> perl arrays (stored internally as high-overhead linked lists).
>
> I've just received a contribution from a user of a patch to
> PDL::NetCDF to add netCDF-4 support.  I've yet to test it out, but this
> will probably mean basic netCDF-4 support will be available in PDL::NetCDF
> within a few weeks.
>
> Regards,
>
>   Doug Hunt
>
> dhunt@xxxxxxxx
> Software Engineer IV
> UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611
>
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Cathy Smith wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> We use the Perl netCDF module pretty extensively in our code. Will it be
> able to support netCDF-4? I looked around and didn't see anything
> specific. I believe the Perl module uses the much older version 2 API
> and I'm not sure how supported it is.
>
> Thanks,
> Cathy Smith
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