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GRIB-API is entirely included in ecCodes without any major change to its Fortran 90, Python and C interfaces. The only function which has been removed is However there are some minor changes and rationalisations described below.
API Changes
The following functions have been removed:
grib_handle_new_from_template which : This was already deprecated in GRIB-API and has been replaced by grib_handle_new_from_samples.
grib_context_new: This was experimental. One should use the default context
In ecCodes we have also removed the Fortran 77 library (libgrib_api_f77.a) and the API examples.
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