Hi all. I looked through the mailing list archives for eccodes and grib and
found only a few hits on the latter related to some testing in gdal.
Eccodes is a library that handles grib data and is actively maintained by
the European weather center, and is distributed open source.

https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/ECC

It would make a nice complement to the existing scientific libraries such
as netcdf, hdf5, etc.. It can be built and installed as a python pip module
easily enough, but I'm a C++ developer and that one isnt quite as
straightforward. It's not a horrible build, but it requires a bit of
creativity. I'd be happy to build / maintain the port for this if no one
knows a reason why not.  With OpenBSDs secure, streamlined architecture,
and with this good weather data support, we can make some inroads into that
community I bet.

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Chris Benesch
BeneschTech, LLC