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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:08:18 -0500, Robert Latham wrote: > Greg, thanks very much for sending along this patch. This has been a > showstopper for at least one site using our software. > > Russ, i'm not sure how to keep the parallel-netcdf and netcdf-3.5 > approaches in sync, but i'm not planning on making any changes to > Greg's patch. Should i just keep an eye on your 3.5 branch to make > sure we continue to address the 64-bit filesize issue the same way? > That sounds doable, but error-prone... I hope to integrate Greg's changes into netcdf-3.5-beta13 soon to create netcdf-3.6, but I'm currently in a crunch that will delay the necessary testing until mid November, when the Unidata Program Center will have moved to a different location for about six months. We also need to update out autoconf/configure to detect and handle large file support properly. You're right, just looking at our releases to stay in sync will be error-prone, but we'll try to keep you in mind and not make any gratuitous changes, like re-indenting everything to a different style :-). I'm not sure what the alternative is unless we were to try to merge netcdf-3.6 with pnetcdf. If that could be done without much impact on non-parallel users, it would be worth considerable effort, but we're also committed to netCDF-4 on HDF5, and currently have 1.25 FTE plus a student assistant for both efforts. Once you start optimizing pnetcdf, things may diverge even more. If you have any better ideas what we could do to help keep things in sync, please let me know. Meanwhile, I think it's great that your group is making such great progress on pnetcdf. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/russ