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1.2.1 2000-07-25
Improved "make install" with respect to installation of
manual pages.

Tried to clarify the fact that this extension-module is
based on version 2 of the netCDF package.

Added "POLLUTE=1" to the perl command that creates
the makefile in the perl/ subdirectory to ensure
compatibility with the new naming convensions of perl
5.6.

1.2 1997-05-20
Corrected manual page: fixed netcdf(3) reference so that
man-cgi(1) will work with it.

Ported to netCDF 3. This required eliminating some
netCDF C macros that should never have been in the
public interface in the first place. For example, I
used NetCDF::RDWR in the test script "perl/test.pl"
when I should have used NetCDF::NOWRITE. Any perl
script using these macros will have to be modified
(fortunately, perl(1) reports undefined symbols).

Improved INSTALL document: in particular, added
commentary about modifying perl/Makefile.PL as
necessary.

1.1 1996-08-22
Allowed use of references for scalar output arguments.

Documented lack of number-of-elements arguments in
interface function and how to specify a scalar variable
to NetCDF::vardef().

Corrected configuration script so that setting of CC
variable has an effect.

Replaced use of croak() in perl/NetCDF.xs with warn().
This will prevent the netCDF/Perl interface from
aborting on error.

Corrected typo in README file: changed `rcount' variable
to `count'.

Added check of NetCDF::attname() to perl `test' target.

Slightly enhanced README.

Added caveat about only using initialized output variables.

Improved INSTALL file: added commentary about requiring
position-independent netCDF object modules for a dynamic
netCDFPerl module and listed desired information for
diagnosing installation problems.

Adapted perl/Makefile.PL.in to latest perl release.

1.0.4 1995-06-30
Corrected names of netCDFPerl files in perl/MANIFEST file.

1.0.3 1995-06-29
Fixed incorrect behavior of NetCDF::varput1().

Converted top-level Makefile to POSIX.2 Standard.

1.0.2 1995-06-20
Bug Fixes:
NetCDF::recget():
First record was always returned regardless of
requested record index.

Documentation:
INSTALL File:
Reordered list of example, diagnostic commands
to be sent when a problem occurs and added `cat
VERSION`.

Added netCDF package to list of prerequisite
packages.

Added SunOS 5.4 to list systems on which
netCDFPerl has been successfully installed.

1.0.1 1995-06-12
Added netCDFPerl URL to README.

Fixed bug that caused a netCDF/perl record-variable size
mismatch under SunOS 5 with the GNU C compiler.

Fixed bug in NetCDF::getatt(): it used to crash the
process.

1.0 1995-06-07
Added CPP_NETCDF, LD_NETCDF, and LIBS examples to
CUSTOMIZE file.

Generalized netCDF::ncrecput and netCDF::ncrecget to
allow references to scalar values.

Added support for perl strings. Reading a netCDF
character variable now returns a perl string rather than
an array of integer values.

Corrected bug in netCDF::ncattname: it would only
return the first global attribute. Thanks to Jon Meek
<meekj@Cyanamid.COM>.

Renamed everything in the API to conform to perl 5
conventions and to reduce redundancy:
* The module name now starts with a capital;

* Function names no longer contain an `nc' prefix;
and

* Constant names no longer contain an `NC_'
substring.
For example,
netCDF::nccreate($path, netCDF::NC_CLOBBER)
is now
NetCDF::create($path, NetCDF::CLOBBER)

0.1 1995-05-23
Ported installation mechanism to perl 5.001.

0.0 1995-05-15
Initial release.