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Lynton, Ooops, sorry to say my report of the bug being fixed seems premature. Although the bug that we thought showed the essential problem was fixed, I just got this report from Dennis: Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:05:34 -0600 From: Dennis Heimbigner <address@hidden> To: Russ Rew <address@hidden> Subject: vlen bug is still there... I found the very original file Lynton sent and ran it, and it still fails. So the original bug is still not fixed. =Dennis I'll talk to Dennis more about this next week ... --Russ > New Client Reply: Problems with CDL/vlen example > > thanks Russ, > this is great news. I will need to schedule some time to get back to finish t > he work.I cannot do it right away but will get back to it as soon as I can. > Lynton > > -----Original Message----- > From: Unidata netCDF Support [mailto:address@hidden] > Sent: 29 August 2012 20:55 > To: Appel, Lynton > Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden; Appel, Lynton; sa > address@hidden > Subject: [netCDF #JNH-860762]: Problems with CDL/vlen example > > Hi Lynton, > > > Dear Sylwester and Russ, > > thanks for the enquiry > > I spent a lot of time on developing an upgraded C++ API that could > > handle user-defined in a much better way. The validation process has got > > somewhat stalled by a bug in the netCDF-C layer or HDF5-layer. > > Russ is there any news on this? > > Yes, there is as of this afternoon. The bug that was holding things up > appears to have been fixed with changes to netCDF-4 or HDF5. I say "or", > because at this point, it's difficult to determine whether the fix was in > the upgrade from HDF5 1.8.8 to 1.8.9 or the netCDF-4 upgrade from 4.1.3 > to 4.2.0, but it works now with the combination netCDF-4 version 4.2.1.1 > and HDF5 version 1.8.9. The details are in this Jira issue description > and comments: > > https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/jira/browse/NCF-155 > > Please try compiling and linking against the new versions and verify whether > you agree that the bug that was blocking release of your new version of the > netCDF-4 C++ release is now fixed. I'm hoping no new bugs affecting that > code have been introduced ... > > --Russ > > > > Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program > address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu > > > > Ticket Details > =================== > Ticket ID: JNH-860762 > Department: Support netCDF > Priority: Critical > Status: Closed > > > > Ticket Details > =================== > Ticket ID: JNH-860762 > Department: Support netCDF > Priority: Critical > Status: Open > Link: https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/esupport/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=vi > ewticket&ticketid=19304 Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JNH-860762 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Critical Status: Open