Dapper in-situ conventions spec available

[Roberto De Almeida]

On 10/7/06, Joe Sirott <Joe.Sirott at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> - You need the latest version of Roberto's pydap (at
> http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/dap) for this as well as the Python egg
> code (at http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs) to run this.
>

Pydap 2.2.0 was quietly released today, by the way. I still need to update
the documentation on the website before making an announcement, but it's
already available for download.

- The testOuterSequenceId test appears to iterate all the way through a
> dataset before completing -- a bit of a problem if you access some of the
> Dapper multi-gigabyte datasets (like the GTSPP or the World Ocean Database
> 2005!)
>

It only downloads the ids (variable _id) from the dataset to check if they
are unique, so it should be a few megabytes at most.

I'm going to make the script more verbose; for now if a test fails it
doesn't explain why.

--Rob