Fortran only

[brianreinhold]

Can this model be downloaded without the need for the python overhead? I would like to have the basic dynamic fortran core and interface it using win32? I would like to build it in Visual studio using the Intel fortran compiler.

[gkvallis]

There is no reason in principle why the model cannot be used without the Python wrapper. The wrapper mainly sets model and runtime parameters, but the model itself is just fortran. There's no runtime overhead when using the Python wrapper -- the wrapper is meant to make things easier for the user, but perhaps not everyone thinks it does. But it may be easier to download the full package and then use it without the Python wrapper, although that will require a bit of work.

[brianreinhold]

Okay. My goal is to make an interactive GUI for setting parameters and displaying output. I know that is going to be a huge task but once done its a great way to do experiments. I have done that with a QG N-level spectral channel model and 90% of the work is the GUI and the display. And this project will be much more difficult - even to figure out how to use it!

[gkvallis]

A few years ago, a couple of people in our team, in collaboration with a Research Software engineer, did make a simple GUI for that, as part of an outreach project for high schools. So it can be done. The GUI hasn't been used for some time now though and I don't know what happened to it. I can investigate a bit if that is of interest.

[brianreinhold]

That could be helpful - sometimes the hardest part is knowing how to start!