Re: 20050426:netCDF binary package for the MacOS X

>To: address@hidden
>From: address@hidden
>Subject: netCDF binary package for the MacOS X
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200504261557.j3QFvJv2016741

Hi Konrad,

> for the benefit of the users of my netCDF-dependent software, I have  
> created a binary package of netCDF 3.6.0-p1 for MacOS X. It has two  
> advantages over the tar file on your Web site:
> 
> - It uses the MacOS installer, meaning that practically every Mac user
>    knows how to install it.
> - It contains dynamic libraries in addition to the static ones.
> 
> The zipped package is attached, in case you would like to distribute it  
> via your Web site.

Thanks very much for providing this.  I've added it to the files
available from 

  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/darwin_7.8-power_macintosh/

and also made a link from 

  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/macosx_10.3_powerpc/

for users who might not recognize "darwin" as referring to MacOS X.

I'm curious how easy it was to package this up to use the MacOS X
installer.  If there's a document telling me how to do it and it's
simple, I could make sure future releases are made available in this
form.  Also I'm curious what compiler flags you used and if you had to
build it twice to get both static and dynamic libraries.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu