On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 04:55:50PM -0400, Alain Hebert wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > >Andrew R. Reiter wrote: > > > >> > >>Scripps Institute of Oceanography > > > >Obviously a bunch of amateurs who don't really know what they want > >or what they are doing. > > (We cannot expect everybody to be adult enought to get how to use > this mailing-list.) Scott was obviously placing his tongue in his cheek. > The obvious reason was stated before that gFortran was not bug free Do you think gcc-3.4.4 is bug free? Or gcc-4.1.1? Or FreeBSD? > and, in view of the importer, it would be best to have gFortran in ports > until the fortran community voice their opinion about which > implementations is the best one. Actually, kan made the very good point that gfortran requires GMP and MPFR. Importing these libraries for gfortran support would be a mistake. Afterall, GMP was in the base at one point in time and it was removed. > Also, if there is no maintainer for a port, it ease the decision > about which one to keep without having to get in a language/religion war. A port for gfortran is maintained, so this isn't an issue. Additionally, I'm listed as a gfortran maintainer and I almost exclusively use FreeBSD, so gfortran orphaning FreeBSD won't happen. -- SteveReceived on Sat May 27 2006 - 19:19:03 UTC
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