[Mapl-support] Introduction to MAPL--comments

[chris hill]

Tom,

  Thanks for the feedback.

  So far MAPL and the fvhs examples have been used with the Absoft and 
Intel compilers. I have it on my list to test with the latest gfortran, 
which is supposed to have improved quite a lot in the last set of revisions.

  Do you know which version of g95 you are using?

  We will try and get the documentations sorted out ASAP. Please let us 
know if/when you find more typos.

Chris Hill
Tom Wainwright wrote:
> Dear Max and co-authors,
> 
> I didn't make it to this year's ESMF community forum, but one of my staff (Jim
> Colbert) did, and was impressed with the potential of MAPL.  I decided to see if
> I could use it, following the tutorial instructions on the wiki.
> 
> First, thanks for the documentation on the wiki!  It provided enough to get me
> started.  First, I downloaded the fvhs tree, and tried that.  I made progress,
> but couldn't finish the compile on my system (Linux-x64/g95/openMPI) due to some
> pointer-related errors deep in the numerical code (g95 doesn't like geopk.F90,
> lines 252,253).
> 
> The latest (June 12, 2007) version of "An Introduction to MAPL" appeared about
> that time, so I decided to try the simpler Example 1 in that document, by
> pulling all the source code in the fvhs/src/Application directory and replacing
> it with the Example 1 code.  After much tweaking of the top-level GNUmakefile
> and .esma_arch.mk, I got it to compile and run.
> 
> However, there are a few errors in the "Program Example1" code ("An Introduction
> to MAPL" pdf, p. 7-8) that you might want to fix in the next edition:
> 
>     use ESMF: should read:
> 	use ESMF_Mod
>     use MAPL ...: has several syntax errors, should read:
> 	use MAPL_Mod, only : SetServices=>MAPL_GenericSetServices
>     clock = ESMF_ClockCreate(...: needs '&' at end of first line,
> 	and "rc=STATUS" should read "rc=RC"
> 
> Thanks again for MAPL and the documentation!  On to Example 2 next week.  Once
> we get it all figured out, I think it will greatly simplify getting our
> biological code into ESMF.
>