ROMS/TOMS Developers

We started the process of releasing the long awaited ROMS/TOMS new version:

• We have been working on the copyright and other legal aspects of ROMS/TOMS for awhile. The new version will now be distributed with the following copyright:

  Copyright (c) 2002-2007 The ROMS/TOMS Group
  Licensed under a MIT/X style license
  See License_ROMS.txt

  Many thanks to Chris Sherwood and Rich Signell (USGS) for their help with the copyright and open source license.

• ROMS/TOMS will be distributed primarily using subversion version control (svn). In the future the user will be able to download the latest version of the model and/or frozen version(s) from our new server by just typing a single UNIX command, like:

  svn checkout https://www.myroms.org/svn/src/trunk MyLocalDir

  or using any GUI interface like esvn (Unix), RapidSVN (cross-platform) or TortoiseSVN (Windows).

  The ROMS svn project managment and bug/issue tracking system is:

  www.myroms.org/projects/src

  The new ROMS sever hosting www.myroms.org will be open to the community in few days. We are currently migrating all services and testing. The new server is a Linux quad completely dedicated to ROMS business: web sites, svn and trac, wikiROMS, developers blog, and forum.

• All files were modified to include the copyright and license notice. I also added the svn keyword id. For example, get_state.F looks like:

  
  #include "cppdefs.h"
        SUBROUTINE get_state (ng, model, msg, ncname, IniRec, Tindex)
  !
  !svn $Id: get_state.F 8 2007-02-06 19:00:29Z arango $
  !================================================== Hernan G. Arango ===
  !  Copyright (c) 2002-2007 The ROMS/TOMS Group                         !
  !    Licensed under a MIT/X style license                              !
  !    See License_ROMS.txt                                              !
  !=======================================================================
  !                                                                      !
  !  This routine reads in requested model state from specified NetCDF   !
  !  file. It is usually used to read initial conditions.                !
  !                                                                      !
  !  On Input:                                                           !
  !                                                                      !
  !     ng         Nested grid number.                                   !
  !     model      Calling model identifier.                             !
  !     msg        Message index for Mstate.                             !
  !     ncname     Nonlinear initial conditions NetCDF file name.        !
  !     IniRec     Nonlinear initial conditions time record to read.     !
  !     Tindex     State variable time index to intialize.               !
  !                                                                      !
  !=======================================================================
  !
    

• Converted distribute.F into a module to allow module procedure interface to distinguish scalar and vector operations:

  
       INTERFACE mp_bcastf
          MODULE PROCEDURE mp_bcastf_s
          MODULE PROCEDURE mp_bcastf_v
        END INTERFACE mp_bcastf
    

  This fixes a problem with Absoft Pro Fortran10 compilers. Many thanks to Brian Powell for reporting this.

• Fixed few bugs in several drivers that have risen during the compilation of all of then.
• This new version was committed into svn and frozen as ROMS/TOMS 2.3 in the tags directory. The Version file is:

  
  ROMS/TOMS Framework:  February 6, 2007
  ===================
  
  Copyright (c) 2002-2007 The ROMS/TOMS Group
    Licensed under a MIT/X style license
    See License_ROMS.txt
  
  svn: $LastChangedBy: arango $
  svn: $LastChangedRevision: 8 $
  svn: $LastChangedDate: 2007-02-06 14:00:29 -0500 (Tue, 06 Feb 2007) $
  svn: $Id: Version 8 2007-02-06 19:00:29Z arango $