[Fwd: Parallel versus serial netCDF?] (fwd)

[Jianwei Li]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Rob Ross wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 John Tannahill wrote:
>
> > Rob,
> >
> > Do you know when the switch [to functions over subroutines] will be made?
>
> Very soon.  We want to do one more release with a working nf_test before
> we change this (and then have to change nf_test again!).
>
> > Also, another small item:
> >
> > I had to change Nf_Get_Vara_Real to Nfmpi_Get_Vara_Float_All, and
> > Nf_Put_Vara_Real to Nfmpi_Put_Vara_Float_All.  I think the serial
> > version always uses REAL and your parallel version always uses
> > FLOAT?  Would be nice if they were the same, or if your version
> > could do both.
>
> Hmm.  We'll have a look at this one.
>
> Thanks for all this input John; this is a big help to us, and hopefully
> we're not holding you back too much.
>

The latest cvs version has changed from FLOAT to REAL for those
subroutines. It'll be in next release, soon:)

Jianwei