On Saturday 27 May 2006 17:14, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >Well, if it A touches 0.0001% of FreeBSD users, POLA isn't really > >relevant. I fail to name at least 1 person who seriously relies on > >Fortran in the base FreeBSD among at least 2,000 FreeBSD users I know. > > ... who can't figure out how to install a compiler from ports. > > Yes, Fortran does no longer belong in the base system, and quite > frankly, it never did. I actually use Fortran at work. We have some data analysis code written in it. I think it should be removed from base, it is trivial to install it from ports. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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