#166: Add new integer types to CF
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Reporter: zender | Owner: cf-conventions@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: medium | Milestone:
Component: cf-conventions | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords: integer unsigned CDF5
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Comment (by jonathan):
Dear Charlie
Thanks for this proposal. I would be happy with it as it stands, because
it is strictly backwards compatible. However I think Jim's suggestions
about deprecation and shorts are good.
I assume you'll open another ticket about the signedness convention when
this one is concluded.
Also, I note that the section about strings, which you don't propose to
alter, begins "NetCDF does not support a character string type", which is
no longer true. I understand that in this ticket you don't want to change
that part of the convention, but maybe we could take the opportunity to
correct that statement by changing it to "NetCDF Classic format does not
...". I expect that at some point soon we will want to allow the string
type in NetCDF-4 files, but that's certainly not in the scope of this
ticket.
Best wishes
Jonathan
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