NOAA-EMC/NCEPLIBS-sigio

ss2gg, ss2lv, and sigdif

aerorahul opened this issue · 4 comments

aerorahul commented

We used to have these 3 utilities that did:

  • ss2gg: convert sigio files into gridded binary data files
  • ss2lv: converted sigio files to levels
  • sigdif: diff 2 sigio files

They floated from place to place.
Would the nceplibs team be willing to add these to this repo?
Note: sigio is no longer used in ops, no one really needs this unless they pull data from circa 2014 or before.

aerorahul commented

@edwardhartnett @kgerheiser
There is no maintenance burden expected from these and we can disable them from building by default.
Your thoughts.

edwardhartnett commented

If this is the best place to put them, that's fine. Let's document that they are included for historical purposes only, and will not be further maintained, documented, or tested.

aerorahul commented

They never had a repo. It literally resided in people's directories.
This is the library that it requires, so it does make sense for them to be here.

There is also a sfc2gg that relies on nceplibs-sfcio.

These are similar to the ones in nceplibs-nemsio. They were orphan until we added them there.

Thanks for the consideration. I will make PR's and make it explicit that these are for historical purposes only.

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