Unidata McIDAS-X - v2008 Known Bugs/Deficiencies
The following lists the known deficiencies or items scheduled for
revision in the Unidata McIDAS-X distribution.
As bugs are uncovered, they will be added to this list. As bugs are
fixed and routines get updated, code updates will be made available,
announced in Unidata McIDAS-X Version 2008
Addenda,
and the corresponding entries in the list below will be deleted.
32-bit vs 64-bit Execution
SSEC recommends that McIDAS-XCD be run on 32-bit versions of
Linux or in 32-bit mod on 64-bit Linuxes. Code changes made after the
SSEC v2008 release which have been incorporated into Unidata McIDAS
v2008 seem to enable XCD to be run on 64-bit systems with no problems,
but testing is ongoing.
mcimage Under KDE
Even though operation of McIDAS-X has improved in recent Linux KDE
environments, it has been observed that there is a memory leak that
will render the workstation unresponsive if McIDAS is left running for
several days. For this reason, we do not recommend the use of the KDE
environment.
SAVE option for PTCON macros
Non-simple grids (e.g., THA, THAE, ABV, VOR, etc.) created from
objective analysis of observed data when saved to a GRID file do not
include the fields DAY, level, or units.
Unidata Tcl/Tk GUI
The Unidata 2008 Tcl/Tk MCGUI interface continues to evolve.
Incremental upgrades to its functionality will be released in package
Addenda throughout the year. Availability
of these updates will be announced to the mcidas-x@unidata.ucar.edu
email list which McIDAS-X users should subscribe to.
Send questions/comments to Unidata McIDAS Support <support-mcidas@unidata.ucar.edu>.
