[gembud] GEMPAK going away in 3-5 years?

[Gerry Creager]

I hate to sound like a cheerleader here, but I'd recommend you consider 
taking the formal IDV class this summer, and work with the scripting 
capabilities of IDV. I don't see that as an impediment.  The biggest 
thing causing Gempak to integrate so well with LDM is pqact, and we can 
link to other apps (and -we- do here) beside Gempak apps and decoders.

I hate to think about changing all the Gempak scripting I've lost but 
making the change isn't going to be horrid.  Well, not as bad as 
learning Java was, anyway.

gerry

Daryl Herzmann wrote:
> My 2 cents:
> 
> Given the communities rather apathetic uptake of IDV it is strange to 
> think that the community will migrate to AWIPS2 if it somehow becomes 
> magically available.  [Note: This isn't a slam against IDV, just noting 
> that most of us are stuck in our ways that continue to work and have a 
> general hatred of Java :) ]
> 
> 
> GEMPAK won't "go away", since it is Open Source (well sort of) and the 
> community could always band together to support it.  The big struggle 
> there will be the constant maintenance to keep up with NWS format changes, 
> etc.  Maybe if 30 of us got together, we could replicate what Chiz was 
> able to do for us!!
> 
> The real deal breaker for me is the tight integration that GEMPAK has with 
> LDM.  We desperately need comparable functionality from IDV / AWIPS2 
> before I remove GEMPAK here :)
> 
> daryl
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