[Savannah-register-public] [task #10719] Submission of NetCDF tools

[Ivan Shmakov]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?10719>

                 Summary: Submission of NetCDF tools
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: oneingray
            Submitted on: Tue 26 Oct 2010 04:10:41 AM NOVST
         Should Start On: Tue 26 Oct 2010 12:00:00 AM NOVST
   Should be Finished on: Fri 05 Nov 2010 12:00:00 AM NOVT
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10672> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10672>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *NetCDF tools*
* System Name:  *netcdf-tools*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v3 or later (This package contains some
Public Domain bits and pieces just as well.)

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==== Description: ====
The NetCDF tools are a few tools to operate on NetCDF and, by utilizing the
compatibility API, HDF4 files, and intended to be used from the Shell
scripts.

The NetCDF tools package is currently comprised of a couple of simplistic
wrappers over the respective NetCDF functions (ncattget and ncattput),
callable from Shell, and a more sophisticated ncget tool.

NetCDF files are in many ways similar to archive files (such as, e. g., .tar,
.a or .zip), but instead of files (or, rather, octet strings), they are
designed to contain multi-dimensional arrays (also called fields or variables)
and the related metadata (in a form of global and per-array attributes.) 
Unfortunately, the NetCDF package offers little support for what one may
consider *usual* archive operations, such as extracting a particular array (in
whole or in part), or accessing the value of an attribute.  This package is to
fill this gap.

The initial revision of the ncget tool was developed back in 2006, and was in
active use at the Altai State University ever since.  However, it wasn't until
early 2010 that the package was released for a wider audience.


==== Other Software Required: ====
NetCDF + BSD Original + http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/
HDF4 + BSD + http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf4/


==== Other Comments: ====
I'm not quite sure that I'll be able to spend much time on this package. 
However, I hope that by hosting it on Savannah I'll allow for easier access to
it by any potential volunteers to come.

May also be of interest:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/netcdf-tools/


==== Tarball URL: ====
http://waterlily.am-1.org/~ivan/src/netcdf-tools-0.1-rc1+1288040860.tar.gz






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