netcdf-4.0-beta1 release now available on netCDF web site...

[Jeff Whitaker]

Ed Hartnett wrote:
> Jeff Whitaker <jswhit at fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>   
>> Ed:  Thanks!  beta1 works fine and passes all the tests with my python
>> module.  However, ncdump appears to be broken - every netcdf-4 file I
>> try results in something like this:
>>
>> ncdump: test.nc: HDF error
>>
>> It seems to work fine with netcdf-3 files however.
>>
>>     
>
> Howdy Jeff!
>
> In this release, ncdump and ncgen can handle netCDF-4 files as long as
> they conform to the classic model.
>
> That is, as long as you don't use user-defined types and the new
> atomic types, it should work fine. (Ncdump does handle groups
> correctly, but not yet ncgen.)
>
> This is tested with the ncdump tests, when the script tst_netcdf4.sh
> is run in the ncdump directory. This script causes ncgen to create
> some netCDF-4/HDF5 files from the same CDL scripts that are used to
> test the netCDF-3 ncgen/ncdump stuff. Then the script feeds the
> resulting data files back to ncdump to make sure that the same CDL
> output results.
>
> For example:
>
> bash-3.00$ ../ncgen/ncgen -v3 -b -o c0.nc ../ncgen/c0.cdl
> bash-3.00$ ./ncdump c0.nc 
> netcdf c0 {
> dimensions:
> 	Dr = UNLIMITED ; // (2 currently)
> 	D1 = 1 ;
> 	D2 = 2 ;
> 	D3 = 3 ;
> 	dim-name-dashes = 4 ;
> 	dim.name.dots = 5 ;
> variables:
> 	char c ;
> 		c:att-name-dashes = 4 ;
> 		c:att.name.dots = 5 ;
> <etc.>
>
> Do your files conform to the classic model?
>   

Ed:  Yes, they do.  ncdump crashes on every netcdf4_classic file I give it.

I'll try running the test and send you the results.

-Jeff


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