The new parameters/tables definitions have been taken into account in order to solve the problem of radiations not being properly read any more. This should now work...

A new date format has been added: RFC868. Two MeteoGrids have been renamed: ISW_DIR as ISWR_DIR and ISW_DIFF as ISWR_DIFF while a new grid has been declared (P_SEA). A few new constants have been declared. Some new links into the GRIB documentation as well as support for TAU_CLD. The NetCDF support is much improved, although there are still things left to do (writing grids out has been disabled for the moment, the parsing of the time units is currently not done, there is no support for automatically getting the data out of multiple files in a directory, etc).

Several warnings have been fixed. The (slightly) wrong geolocalization calculation such as found in fixed in NetCDF has also been fixed in GRIB. A bug that was preventing GRIB DEM from being read has been fixed.

The grids.isEmpty() method has been renamed as empty() in order to follow the STL convention. The ARC grids written with Alpine3D naming were still not properly named, they should now be directly recognized by the Alpine3D grid viewer.

The basic operators have been implemented in Grid2DObject and Grid3DObject as well as DEMObject (with the proper update strategy). 

In order to suppress the risk of out of date "ncols, nrows" and since these were redundant with Array2D<>.nx/ny, they have been suppressed and it is therefore now mandatory to rely on the getNx/getNy/getNz getters. This is much safer but impacted quite a lot of code... 

Some documentation bugs have been fixed (multiple links definitions for doxygen). The config.dox file has been updated (in order to remove the warnings for obsolete keys). The parameter exclusion feature has been documented and now supports both a space delimited external file or by keys such as WFJ2::exclude = TA RH HS

better file structure: all the classes purely focused on data storage (such as grids, dates, etc) have been moved into a "dataClasses" directory. All subdirectories are nhow named similarly to the classes and methods: the words after the first one are capitalized.

A bug has been fixed when doing nearest neighbour 2D interpolation. The GRIB plugin can now handle non-square cells (by resampling the domain). The cellsize and geolocalization in NetCDF are now handled the same way as in GRIB: the error is minimized in the center of the domain and the llcorner is back-calculated. Therefore very large domains are handled better. The first elements for supporting ECMWF grids have been implemented, the DEMs can now be read (but their remain as geopotential instead of height).

The support for non-square cells (through resampling to make them square) has been added to GRIBIO. Both for Gribio and Netcdfio, the cellsize is not a max(size_x, size_y) anymore but a min() (in order to be consistent with best practice in GIS)

The COSMOXMLIO documentation has been updated and the plugin can now read all files in a given directory (but they must follow a loose naming scheme). Otherwise, small fixes (documentation typo, constification).

Using the new Coords constructor and making the list of STATIONS in GRIBIO support discontinuous numbering

A line was commented out that should not have been... Therefore the geolocalization information was not properly read!

Replacing "special points" by "Points Of Interest" in the documentation and the examples. Fixing warnings for BormaIO.

The cmake files for compiling with LibXML++ have been updated since they would not work with more recent Linux (but we should consider dropping LibXML++ and only rely on LibXML2 in order to reduce the dependencies and package finding mess). The special points are now called POI (Points of Interest, like for a gps device) in order to make them more familiar.

Lots of simplification in the CMakeLists (requirering cmake >=2.8.0) as well as a small documentation update

Fixing some warnings for Visual C++ and also using ostringstream instead of stringstream when appropriate

More size_t fixes (ie trying to be consistent) and a bug was found when spatially interpolating using a few specific algorithms that would not reset their internal vectors between two calls (thanks Matteo for helping uncover this bug!)

A broken link has been fixed in GRIBIO, the use of inishell is now properly encouraged in the "how to set up your io.ini" section and some indenting in Array1D

Adding a link in the documentation, moving libsmet to the plugins subdirectory and small fixes in GRIBIO

My previous commit was terrible... it simply made it impossible to define optional keys. This has now been fixed but required a change in the API. So, don't use Config::nothrow but IOUtils::nothrow instead.

In order to try to be closer to the spirit of the STL, now the empty strings/vectors/lists are tested with .empty(), the first/last elements of vectors accessed with front()/back(), the empty strings are not contructed with string("") but with string(), etc This makes a benchmark based on meteo_reading ~4% faster and this makes the code suprisingly easier to read. 

Some extra constification took place as well as some minor code cleanup (optimizing the comparison between two vectors in order to perform less tests, etc).

The Date class can now properly generate and parse full ISO timestamps, including time zone information. The full specification is now supported by convertString() with a helper method in the Date class. Ouputing an ISO string with its time zone is done by requesting the ISO_TZ format.

Some warnings have been fixed in the tests and all 'string tmp=""' or 'tmp=""' have been replaced by either an empty constructor (that does the same ) or tmp.clear() (that does the same too)

The cubic B-spline image resampling algorithm has been implemented in ResamplingAlgorithms2D. Various Weffc++ warnings have been fixed in PNGIO, ImisIO and GRIBIO, leading to the suppression of unused variables.

The plugins are no longer separately loadable libraries, but are fully incorporated into libmeteoio. All classes and facilities that provided capabilites for the dynamic loading were deleted (DynamicLibrary). IOPlugin now holds a function pointer to an instantiation function for children of IOInterface. In IOHandler::registerPlugins() all plugins need to be registered with the key name, the class name, a pointer to an instance of the class and a function pointer to the instantiation function for the class (child of IOInterface). IOInterface lost some complexity and thus the constructor of the base class does not have to be called in derived classes anymore.

The CMakeLists.txt files had to be updated to no longer make separate dynamically loadable libraries for each plugin, but to simply add the classes the user selectes to the meteoio library. 

As a side effect the io.ini key GENERAL::PLUGINPATH is no longer necessary.

Some extra documentation has been added for the UPS coordinate system. The coordinates test has been expanded. A missing default value has been added to the Suntrajectory.

Added some documentation to GRIBIO, fixed the documentation of FilterStdDev, improved the regex for the sun test, significantly improved code coverage by adding lots of different filters and interpolations (both 1D and 2D). The meteo files have been tweaked in order to contain precipitation for the reference time step.

The MeteoData == operator now compares with an epsilon. The chekEpsilonEquality function has been rewritten, according to best practise and inlined. The powN functions have been moved to MathOptim and inlined. This makes the benchmarks 2% faster, that's such a victory...

Since the autotools are obsolete (and unmaintained) in MeteoIO, they have been removed. The popc++ version can be compiled with cmake (with some tricks: disable GSN and force the compiler to popcc). 

For consistency, the various definitions of ot_deg and to_rad have been suppressed and replaced by Cst::to_deg or Cst::to_rad. Some mentions of the Earth's radius have been replaced by Cst::earth_R0. In Coords, some variables have been declared as const.

Outputs that were used for warnings (or information) are now done on cerr instead of cout, in order to avoid poluting the outputs of user code. Should we do the same for the exceptions?

A new method, getSolarTime has been added to SunTrajectory.

A new getMeteo() method has been implemented that transparently performs spatial interpolations and returns a grid for a given parameter. This should be prefered to interpolate(), since it allows the reading plugin to directly provide gridded data (such as coming out of GRIB).
Code cleanup in ResamplingAlgorithms, improved error message in A3DIO. Several keys have been updated/added to the plugins, in order to be more consistent between plugins. Therefore, meteo file extensions are given with METEOEXT, grid2d extensions with GRID2DEXT, grid2d prefix with GRID2DPREFIX (not all plugins support them, though), etc

The usage of SMET for giving special points was not documented. When giving OLWR in SMET, TSS was computed but could lead to an arithmetic exception. PNGIO could throw an exception without freeing all the png_* memory, this has been improved. A few HACKS have been fixed/removed.

Reading data temporal validity was not working for forecast data, that uses more complicated validity model (and I missunderstood how the validity was expressed). This is now fixed and works both on COSMO reanalysis and forecast data (and it is way more complicated and bloated as I ever imagined...).

The wind fields are now all properly corrected for the rotated grid, including U and V. The VW and DW fields are even cached since they might be accessed several times for a given time step.