root/cdat/tags/5.0rc1/Changes_3.3_to_4.csv

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latest changes to change list and readmes

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1 "Impact";"Package";"Section";"Change"
2 1;"Cdms";"Axis";"Time dimension does not generate bounds automatically anymore – use cdms.setAutoBounds('on') -"
3 1;"Cdms";"Curvilinear grids";"CurveGrids can be supplied in the axis list."
4 1;"Cdms";"Curvilinear grids";"Added conversion routines: rect => curve => generic"
5 1;"Cdms";"Curvilinear grids";"MV works with curvilinear grids"
6 1;"Cdms";"Curvilinear grids";"Can read grids from scrip remap files"
7 1;"Cdms";"Curvilinear grids";"getMesh returns a transposed mesh grid if requested."
8 1;"Cdms";"Curvilinear grids";"On reading grids from files, check for cell convexity. Where that fails by default fix cells that straddle the 0 / 2pi boundary."
9 1;"Cdms";"Curvilinear grids";"Added routines to write grids to external files in scrip format"
10 1;"Cdms";"I/O";"Trapped seg faults on closed file objects."
11 1;"Cdms";;"Fixed memory leaks."
12 1;"Doc";"Tutorials";"New tutorials"
13 1;"Exsrc";"DODS";"Now builds by default under Linux, updated to Version 3.4"
14 1;"Vcdat";"DV";"A number reflecting selection/operation order appears next to selected variable"
15 1;"Vcdat";"DV";"Templates and Graphic Method Listbox available (on/off) in Variables and Calculator area"
16 1;"Vcdat";"Editors";"Template editor accessible from VCDAT (click and drag technology)"
17 1;"Vcdat";"Editors";"Graphic Method Editors updated, preview/reset option added"
18 1;"Vcdat";"General";"4 mode: 1-user defined layout; 2- Browse Variable; 3- Data Manipulation; 4- Graphics Display"
19 1;"Vcdat";"GUI";"Layout changed, now has mode for plot edititng, letting you copy/paste and edit existing template and method"
20 1;"Vcdat";"Plot";"Annotation pop-up available, with preview/reset/apply/cancel"
21 1;"Vcdat";"Plot";"Page Layout Table to control what is displayed on the VCS Canvas, can turn on/off plots with one click"
22 1;"Vcs";"Animations";" update to handle two or more on a page"
23 1;"Vcs";"Animations";"Can read from a file"
24 1;"Vcs";"Animations";"Can save to a file"
25 1;"Vcs";"Curvilinear grids";"Handled automatically"
26 1;"Vcs";"Projection";"Added gctp package to vcs, 28 new types of projection avalaible"
27 1;"Vcs";"Templates";"Template editor by clicking"
28 2;"Cdms";"I/O";"Added writeScripGrid, readScripGrid can read from a SCRIP mapping file"
29 2;"Cdms";"Libcdms";"Removed spurious calendar error"
30 2;"Cdms";"Time axis";"TransientAxis getCalendar returns DefaultCalendar if none specified. This is consistent with FileAxis.getCalendar()"
31 2;"Doc ";"Tutorials";"Data can now be anywhere on user's space"
32 2;"Genutil";"Arrayindexing";"New module, allows array indexing, e.g:C=genutil.arrayindexing.get(A,B)"
33 2;"Genutil";"Filters";"Added filters module, so far only “running average”, 121 and custom"
34 2;"Genutil";"Statistics";"fixed a bug in linear regression when trend is 0, probability are not set to missing"
35 2;"Install";"All";"Updated external Packages to their latest versions, see README files"
36 2;"Install";"CDAT";"Mac OS X “offically” supported"
37 2;"Install";"Cdms";"Fix CDMS build for FreeBSD"
38 2;"Install";"Cdms";"Added --cdms-only option to express_install."
39 2;"Install";"Exsrc";"Now can build indiviudal package or exclude some"
40 2;"Install";"Exsrc";"--list option added"
41 2;"Install";"Exsrc";"--help option in install_script "
42 2;"Vcdat";"0D (numbers)";"if no dimensions are present, then show the single vaule in the Defined Variables window"
43 2;"Vcdat";"1D plot";"Overlay applies, use page layout for other types"
44 2;"Vcdat";"DV";"Different mode of variable selection single/multiple"
45 2;"Vcdat";"GUI";"Remove the 1-Plot, 2-Plot, 3-Plot, 4-Plot per page"
46 2;"Vcdat";"I/O";"Simple binary file reader added"
47 2;"Vcdat";"I/O";"Can read column arranged ascii files"
48 2;"Vcdat";"I/O";"Save netcdf now has browser to go between directories"
49 2;"Vcdat";"I/O";"Simple ascii file reader added"
50 2;"Vcdat";"Menu";"New interface to user menu, more robust and intuitive"
51 2;"Vcdat";"Scripting";"Added limited recordings of the functions (not available on beta)"
52 2;"Vcs";"Boxfill";"Now can specify levels just like in isofill"
53 2;"Vcs";"Isofill";"Now has legend otpion (i.e can specifiy where to  put values)"
54 2;"Vcs";;"Linewidth option added where line are controlled"
55 2;"Vcs";;"User can click on the plot and get worldcoordinate/index values, and actual value"
56 3;"Cdms";"I/O";"picker selector, let you pick non contiguous values"
57 3;"Cdutil";"Times";"Yearly and xDaily Time Bounds setting, plus accept either slab or axis"
58 3;"Contrib";"F2py";"Added F2PY, fortran wrapper"
59 3;"Install";"HDF";"--HDF= option let user point to HDF libraries"
60 3;"Install";"Scrip";"Source code distributed but not installed"
61 3;"Vcdat";"DV";"Replacing the eval call for the exec call. Now the user can enter any command"
62 3;"Vcdat";"DV";"Fix for the automatic Numeric and MA conversion to MV. The user now has a choice to convert Numeric and MA to MV. That is, the user will need to select the ""Automatic Conversion to MV"" toggle in the ""Preferences"" menu to turn this feature on or off"
63 3;"Vcs";"Plot";"Very High Resolution Continent Files generated via GMT are available on the web"
64 3;"Vcs";"Templates";"Scaling, now can scale fonts"
65 3;"Vcs";"Text";"Bg option works"
66 4;"Cdms";"I/O";"Implemented isClose()."
67 4;"Contrib";"Install";"Automatically built"
68 4;"Exsrc";"VTK";"VTK (beta version) added to distrib, not built by default this is experimental"
69 4;"Genutil";"Xmgrace";"Now can pass arguments at init time"
70 4;"Vcdat";"General";"Retains user settings"
71 4;"Vcdat";"General";"Predefined Region"
72 4;"Vcdat";"General";"Can define colors using intensiy"
73 4;"Vcdat";"Taylordiagram";"GUI updated"
74 4;"Vcs";"Primitives";"Projection accessible"
75 4;"Vcs";"Taylordiagram";"standard dev added to xaxis"
76 4;"Vcs";"Taylordiagram";"taylor control the xtic/ytic/cticks"
77 4;"Vcs";"Yxvsx, Xyvsy";"Auto now works again (no more blank canvas)"
78 4;"Vcs";;"Improved thread support"
79 5;"Cdms";"Cdscan";"Added –nofiles, --execfile option"
80 5;"Cdms";"Cdscan";"Added --notrim-lat option"
81 5;"Cdms";"Cdscan";"Added --filesxml option"
82 5;"Cdms";"Curvilinear grids";"Raise error if nonrectangular grid has no bounds associated"
83 5;"Cdms";"I/O";"Added gridftp protocol"
84 5;"Cdutil";"Times";"fixed times.setTimesBoundsMonthly for end of month storage"
85 5;"Cdutil";"Vertical";"Vertical Interpolation Tools (sigma2pressure)"
86 5;"Contrib";"IaGraph";"Package of interactive graphing tools. IaGraph will create line plots, scatter plots, and contour plots"
87 5;"Exsrc";"R";"Added R (statistical package) sources to distrib, not built by default"
88 5;"Genutil";"Xmgrace";"safe/nosafe problem solved, version controled before passing the argument"
89 5;"Ncml";;"New Package"
90 5;"Scrip";;"New module, interface to scrip regridder"
91 5;"Vcdat";"DV";"Icons tools added"
92 5;"Vcdat";"General";"Keep (or not) Windows in front of main window"
93 6;"Cdms";"Axis";"Align isLatitude, isLongitude test with CF convention"
94 6;"Contrib";"ComparisonStatistics";"fixed a bug for TimeComponent 18, the seasonal weights used in computing the annual means were slightly off"
95 6;"Contrib";"Rpy";"Added Rpy package, works if you have R on your system"
96 6;"Exsrc";"Pbm";"Pbmplus replaced with netpbm on Linux and Mac systems"
97 6;"Genutil";"Statistics";"Geometric Mean, Median and Rank functions added"
98 6;"Vcdat";"1D plot";"Fixed multiplier annotation for 1D plots."
99 6;"Vcdat";"DV";"Support for chemistry attributes"
100 6;"Vcdat";"General";"Exit Popup to retain settings (can be turned off)"
101 6;"Vcdat";"Menu";"Option pull down from main menu was changed to “Preferences”"
102 6;"Vcs";"Animations";"bug fix for pan and zoom"
103 6;"Vcs";"Templates";"Ratio options now supported, let user definean y/x ratio or if lat/lon let vcs find a good one"
104 7;"Contrib";"ComparisonStatistics";"Handles fortran NaN"
105 7;"Vcdat";"Annotations";"Changed annotation so a blank text field will print nothing in on the Canvas"
106 7;"Vcs";"boxfill/isofill";"Extension bug fix, if levels set after ext_1"
107 7;"Vcs";"Taylordiagram";"Taylordiags single precision ok now"
108 8;"Cdms";"Cdscan";"Fixed bug when file has 'bounds' dimension."
109 8;"Contrib";"ComparisonStatistics";"Updated doc"
110 8;"Vcs";"Markers";"0 means no marker"
111 8;"Vcs";"Taylordiagram";"fixed taylordiagrams.script and also listelements('taylordiagram') now works (x.show returns None)"
112 9;"Cdms";"Drs";"Fixed the cycle process for DRS files. Must close DRS files before you open them again."
113 9;"Cdutil";;"Removed Propertied Class dependencies, replaced with standard python (object/property)"
114 9;"Contrib";"ComparisonStatistics";"Bug fixing"
115 9;"Contrib";"Pyfort";"New version 8.4"
116 9;"Vcdat";"General";"User can defined the name of its default template/graphic methods"
117 9;"Vcs";"1D plots";"Bug fixes for graphics methods. That is, if the data only has 1 dimensions and 2 or more dimensions are required, then use Yxvsx to plot the data"
118 9;"Vcs";"Printer";"lanscape/portrait argument bug fix"
119 9;"Vcs";"Taylordiagram";"Skill drawing, bug fix"
120 9;"Vcs";;"Major changes to the VCS graphics methods"
121 9;"Vcs";;"Fixed attribute settings for missing attributes"
122 10;"Cdms";"I/O";"Fixed bug in dataset.write when time axis is a float. This shows up with Numeric V23.1"
123 10;"Cdms";;"Added xmllib to ditrib since it'll be abandoned in future python"
124 10;"Cdutil";"VariableMatcher";"Added comment keyword"
125 10;"Genutil";;"Removed Propertied Class dependencies, replaced with standard python (object/property)"
126 10;"Vcs";"Colormap";"Added the NCAR Color Map to the initial.attribute file."
127 10;"Vcs";"Colormap";"Cleanedup"
128 10;"Vcs";"Templates";"fixed JYP comments about ""inconsistency"" on comment#1 of UL1of4 template"
129 10;"Vcs";;"Removed Propertied Class dependencies, replaced with standard python (object/property)"
130 11;"Cdms";"Curvilinear grids";"auxcoord, gengrid modules"
131 11;"Esg";;"New Package"
132 11;"Install";"CDAT";"Building GNU tar on older systems..."
133 11;"Install";"CDAT";"--psql option added"
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