Re: [thredds] common geoscience packages

• To: Terry.Rankine@xxxxxxxx
• Subject: Re: [thredds] common geoscience packages
• From: Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate <gerry.creager@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:48:56 -0500

While I wasn't going to name names before, I concur with Terry and his
Python preference. Too easy to distribute to ignore.

gerry

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:11 PM, <Terry.Rankine@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We are a python shop here and often interface our C/C++/Fortran libs via
> python for a 'smoother driving experience'.
>
> If I was to point to python - it would be to the stock anaconda
> distribution - http://continuum.io/downloads
> Mainly for the 'works out of the box with binaries' so more likely to
> work on a 'users' target machine without much effort. It also packages
> some 'common' python libs
> http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/pkg-docs.html
>
> Personally - I have other views on python packaging but for the 'easy
> redistribution' purposes - this is the clear winner. (already has gdal,
> hdf, netcdf libs etc)
>
> Regards
> Terry
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 13:37 -0600, Jeff McWhirter wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > This is somewhat off-topic for this list but I am putting together a
> > collection of installer scripts for Redhat Linux for various
> > geoscience software packages as part of my work with RAMADDA's Service
> > Integration Framework
> > (http://geodesystems.com/repository/userguide/services.html).
> >
> >
> > Here is the list of packages I have support for so far -
> >
> >
> > ImageMagick
> > Proj4
> > GDAL
> > GMT
> > HDF
> > NetCDF
> > NCO  - NetCDF Operators
> > CDO - Climate  Data Operators
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > What other packages do folks use?
> >
> > WRF? R? Fortran?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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• References:
  • [thredds] common geoscience packages
    • From: Jeff McWhirter
  • Re: [thredds] common geoscience packages
    • From: Terry.Rankine