James Hiebert

I'm not a C++ expert either, but IIRC we moved to C++ on VIC in our fork off of VIC 4.0.7 without much fuss using g++. I'd experiment with your...

Personally, I think that we need to overhaul *all* of the PyDAP-related namespace packages (and generally get rid of the namespace packages since namespace packages in general are not really...

I didn't necessarily have a strategy, but I assume that that would be a requirement.

Yeah, that's a good point. It might even be *better* to do it now, so that people stop unwittingly installing handlers/responses that won't work with 3.x Pydap.

> Now could be a good time to rethink the governance structure of pydap. @jameshiebert do you have an opinion? I haven't had a ton of time recently to devote...

Wow, that list is extensive! A) I need to get [PCIC's data](https://www.pacificclimate.org/data) on there and B) we should reference this list in our user docs.

I have [a branch](https://github.com/pyscript/pyscript/compare/main...jameshiebert:pyscript:i1349) that starts on this, but am running into a pain of a roadblock. The [the MyST substitution rules](https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/optional.html#substitutions-with-jinja2) are not assessed within code blocks, and code...

Yeah, that looked promising, though I can't get it to work. Since most of the docs are written in markdown, I suspect that they get bypassed the Sphinx substitution.

> is rare enough Yeah, I was surprised to find it turned off by default on my Gentoo box.

AX_LIB_GDAL comes from `m4/ax_lib_gdal.m4` (from the [GNU Autoconf Archive](http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/)). 2.69 is probably not really required; that line was generated by GNU autoscan, and I probably should have pulled it out...