[McIDAS #LIX-347345]: RE: NGC Unidata login info

Hi Martha,

re:
> From looking at the UNIDATA website and the SSEC website,  it looks
> to me as if you (UNIDATA) have continued with the 2009 designation for
> your Mcidas distributions while SSEC has cont inued to update the date
> of the distribution(2009, 2010, 2011, etc).  Is this correct?

Correct.

re:
> Also, we are currently running 2009 UNIDATA 090710 which has a
> distribution date of 2009-08-05.  So you can see we are way behind the
> curve.

Yes, you are missing a number of addenda.

re:
> However, if I understand it correctly, the subsequent UNIDATA
> distributions carry with them all the previous modifications and
> corrections so that if we get your latest and greatest, we will have all
> the previous code mods and additions and will only need to up date with
> 2009i(?), which is equivalent to SSEC 2011.1.  Am I correct about that?

You are correct.

Comments:

- Unidata McIDAS v2009i (which I hope to release today or tomorrow) contains
  almost all SSEC modifications from their v2010.x and 2011.1.  The only
  mods that are missing are to the makefile; those mods implement the
  ability to compile subsets of the code without linking against X libraries.
  I believe that this was done so that they could compile ADDE servers
  in a Cygwin environment under Windows and then bundle the executables
  with McIDAS-V (which is SSEC's version of IDV with additions and
  modifications).

  I am planning on adding the makefile mods and releasing Unidata McIDAS
  v2009j sometime in January.

- SSEC updated several of the ancillary packages bundled with McIDAS-X
  either in their v2011.1 or v2010.x releases.  I updated those packages
  in Unidata McIDAS v2009i.  These changes will require that a site
  completely rebuild the package from scratch.  The addendum page that
  describes the v2009i update will have complete details and step-by-step
  insructions.

re:
> Thanks.

No worries.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket ID: LIX-347345
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed