I did not see this addressed in the mailing list.
Perhaps, this has not been pondered.
The netCDF v3 file extension has been generally
accepted to be ".nc". The new netCDF-HDF5 merger will
write ".h5" HDF5 files. However, the API can not read
a general HDF5. But, only an HDF5 file that was
written by this API.
So, has there been thought to a file extension that
might represent a new netCDF-HDF5 file? If I give
someone a .nc file (which is really an HDF5 file),
they will not be able to read it unless they have
recompiled with the new library. If, however, I send
them, say, a ".nc4" file. They will know immediately
that this is a "new" HD5-based netCDF file. Whew!
Thoughts?
Paul
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