On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 11:05:40AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > From: Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> > Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 21:39:26 -0400 > > Should we package GCTP separately in that case? Is it used by anything > > besides HDF-EOS5? Or, should we just package HDF-EOS5? > > The only other use I'm aware of is in HDF-EOS2, which is a separate library > from HDF-EOS5, built on HDF4 instead of HDF5, and which also bundles gctp. I > intend to package HDF-EOS2 as well, once HDF4 is included. > > > We usually don't accept bundled code, but it sounds like GCTP no longer > > exists as an independent project. Is that right? > > That is my impression, too (broken urls and undeliverable e-mails). The > package is quite small anyway, so perhaps bundling with the 2 HDF-EOS > libraries is acceptable?
It sounds like you've tried emailing the authors for advice. Is that right? > The archive does not contain an explicit version number or changelog (it > just says it's the “new C version of the GCTP” -- before that, it seems > there were some Fortran routines). I've also found a gctpc2.0 archive, > which *does* have a changelog, and on closer inspection (comparing the > source of this package with comments from the changelog from 2.0), it seems > that this code corresponds to version 1.3... (though e.g. Debian also calls > it 1.0). It's quite messy actually. I'll see if HDF-EOS5 builds against > gctp-2.0 (for which a I've found a cleaner archive), and maybe package that > instead... It looks like this gctp-2.0 is bundled with wgrib2 [0]. If there is no independent repository for GCTP, I'd assume that GCTP is altered independently for each application that it's bundled with. If so, I think it makes sense to use the bundled copy of GCTP. Otherwise, we are basically forking GCTP and creating a new distribution of it, and that would require us to maintain it and test its integration with HDF-EOS5. What do people think? Should we use the bundled GCTP in HDF-EOS5 and, later, HDF-EOS2? [0] http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/nwprod/util/sorc/wgrib2.cd/grib2/wgrib2/Introduction.txt
