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Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? [message #66092 is a reply to message #66090]

Fri, 03 April 2009 06:52

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Paul van Delst writes:

> Do any insiders out there know about the status of future support for netCDF-4 in IDL? I
> received third/fourth-hand news yesterday that there are no plans for IDL to support
> netCDF-4 and I wanted to get some more scoop before contacting ITTVIS directly. I searched
> the ng on google but didn't find anything.

I have absolutely *no* inside information about ITTVIS's
plans, but from the perspective of someone on the periphery
of a project (not using IDL) that is thinking about supporting
netCDF-4, I can certainly understand why they would have no
current plans to do so. The lack of tools and good documentation
make this a constant frustration to deal with. Not to mention,
in our case, a cumbersome scheme for including map information
in the file. I think everyone is probably holding their breath,
hoping (against reason, I'm sure) that no one wants to use
this format. :-)

At the very least, I think most companies will wait for things
to settle down a bit before tackling the project. This seems
reasonable to me.

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: Mark[1] on Tue, 07 April 2009 22:17
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 06 April 2009 11:27
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 April 2009 10:05
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 06 April 2009 10:01
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: R.Bauer on Mon, 06 April 2009 02:09
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: George White on Sat, 04 April 2009 11:35
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 April 2009 13:29
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: ben.bighair on Fri, 03 April 2009 13:14
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 April 2009 10:27
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 03 April 2009 09:43
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: Andy Heaps on Fri, 03 April 2009 09:40
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 April 2009 06:52

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