header and library name change

Rob Ross rross at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Apr 24 20:25:09 CDT 2003


On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Robert Latham wrote:

> Troy Baer suggested we not use libnetcdf and netcdf.h, since those
> were the names used by serial netcdf.   
> 
> It seems easy enough to change the names: can anyone suggest why we
> shouldn't call them 'libpnetcdf' and 'pnetcdf.h' ?

This sounds like an excellent idea.

> on a related note, i'm going to regenerate the fortran bindings with a
> 'nfmpi_' prefix instead of 'ncmpif_' to make the code match the
> documentation.   Thanks for catching that one, too, troy.

Also excellent idea :).

Rob




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