[Vis5d-users] Re: Vis5d+ 1.1 is available

Hi Steven,

This is really great. Obviously I'm not doing much with
Vis5D recently, and I really appreciate the fine work
you've been doing with Vis5d+.

Cheers,
Bill

> I'm pleased to announce that revision 1.1 of Vis5d+ (release notes
> attached below) is available from the Vis5d+ web site:
> 
>                 http://vis5d.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Vis5d+ is intended as a central repository for enhancements to Vis5d.  It
> started out as a project to port Vis5d to the automated autoconf/automake
> build system, and has since benefited from a number of other enhancements.
> Vis5d+ also continues to track all changes in the mainline Vis5d sources.
> 
> The current release includes a number of bugfixes, enhancements to
> v5dimport, and now cleanly separates the API from the GUI.  (See below.)
> 
> Thanks especially to Jim Edwards for his continuing efforts on Vis5d+.
> He has also begun work on an alternative Gtk+/GNOME based graphical
> interface.  (Gtk+ is a popular GUI library for GNU/Linux and other Unices,
> and has even been ported to Windows.)
> 
> We welcome your comments.
> 
> Cordially,
> Steven G. Johnson
> 
> PS.  We also hope that someone will be motivated to merge the NCAR
> extensions into Vis5d+ (hint, hint)...
> 
> Vis5d+ 1.1
> 
>   * The API (i.e. the libvis5d library) is now properly independent of the GUI.
> 
>   * Better GrADS support in v5dimport (case-insensitive keywords, support
>     for the PDEF statement, and template and byteswapped options).
>     Removed an abitrary restriction on the minimum size of a file to be
>     imported, which caused certain small GrADS header files to fail.
> 
>   * v5dimport is now built using the same sources as the "import" command
>     in Vis5d, in the src/ directory (the import/ directory is removed).
> 
>   * Build maketopo and some other example utilities in the utils/ directory
>     by default, although they are still not installed since you need to
>     edit the source code for them to be useful.  Thanks to Markus
>     Neteler for the suggestion.
> 
>   * v5dimport now looks for EARTH.topo in the installation prefix, or
>     in the VIS5D_PATH/VIS5D_TOPO environment variables if one of those
>     are defined.
> 
>   * Synchronized with mainline tree as of April 2, 2001.
> 
>   * You can now optionally specify the year with 4 digits, and the
>     weekday is now correct.  Also fixed year 2100 problem (not a
>     leap year).  Thanks to Jaakko Hyvatti for the patch.
> 
>   * Added fortran-callable functions V5DUPDATE and V5DUPDATETIMES,
>     similar to the C interface; thanks to Jaakko Hyvatti.
> 
>   * Eliminate gcc compiler warnings; many code cleanups.
> 
>   * Fixed non-working --with-memory configure option, thanks to Andrew Woolf.
> 
>   * Fixed some problems compiling the Fortran utilities under Tru64 Unix,
>     reported by Frederic Chagnon.
> 
>   * Fixed possible crashing bug in vertical levels interpolation code.
> 
>   * Possible bug fix when reading profiles from NetCDF files.
> 
>   * Fixed a bug in v5dimport so that it properly handles the lowest level
>     setting in the vertical coordinate system.  For example, if a vcs
>     had 4 levels 1012 1000 750 500 and a variable had lowlev=1 Nl=3,
>     that variable should be defined on levels 1000 750 and 500, but
>     v5dimport was ignoring the lowlev and using levels 1012 1000 and
>     750.

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