From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 19:35:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00353 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:35:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00338 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:35:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id VAA26864 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:35:26 -0600 (CST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) id VAA23998; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:32:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bruce) From: Bruce Albrecht MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <13999.55856.37120.423504@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:32:00 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing f2c from base distribution In-Reply-To: <199901271623.LAA07822@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199901270504.WAA18271@mt.sri.com> <199901270555.VAA09197@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <19990126220644.A7037@relay.nuxi.com> <199901270623.IAA01480@greenpeace.grondar.za> <36AEFC21.A9B32C67@newsguy.com> <199901271623.LAA07822@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.62 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman writes: > < said: > > > > A lot of people use a lot of things out of ports. Why should Fortran > > be different? > > Because Berkeley Unix has /always/ included a FORTRAN compiler. So FreeBSD v12.4, released in 2026, had better include a FORTRAN compiler, because Berkely Unix has /always/ included a FORTRAN compiler? I'm sure there are a fair number of ways FreeBSD has diverged from the way Berkeley Unix has always done things (for example, to conform to POSIX), is that such a bad thing? If it's a port, and sysinstall gives the user an option to install a FORTRAN compiler, is that so radically different from Berkeley Unix /always/ including a FORTRAN compiler? Is it wrong to move things that most people installing FreeBSD don't use out of the core and into ports? I've never used the FreeBSD FORTRAN compiler, but I do use something that a lot of other people single out as being in this category (uucp), but if uucp were to move to the ports, I'd still use it and FreeBSD. Are there any programs in the base sources for FreeBSD that are written in FORTRAN? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message