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Re: Announcement: netCDF version 3.6.0 now available

Hi Mary,

> I've been using netcdf-3.6.0-beta6. Do you recommend that I move to 
> 3.6.0 proper?

Well, here's the changes that have been made since 3.6.0-beta6:

                Added texinfo source for the documentation.

                Added large file tests to Windows directory in distribution.

                Modified win32 visual studio project files so that m4
                is no longer required to build netcdf under visual studio.

                Modified rules.make to use install instead of cp,
                fixing install problem for cygwin users.
                
                Modified configure/install stuff to support HP-UX.

                Modified configure/install stuff to support G95.
        
                In the f90 interface, applied Arnaud Desitter's fixes
                to correct mismatches between scalar and array
                arguments, eliminating (legitimate) complaints by the
                NAGWare f95 compiler.  Also fixed bugs introduced in
                3.6.0-beta5 in the mapped array interfaces.

Only the last of these is potentially important for your users.  And
I'm not sure it's that important, since it's mostly about eliminating
some warning messages from the netCDF build, and very few users
actually make use of the mapped array interfaces.  So i would
eventually update, but there's no urgency and you might even want to
wait for 3.6.1, fixing whatever flurry of problems are sure to be
identified in a release with this many changes in it ...

--Russ