From owner-freebsd-fortran@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 9 23:24:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fortran@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5682AE8 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:24:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@uminac.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f180.google.com (mail-ie0-f180.google.com [209.85.223.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE971370 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:24:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f180.google.com with SMTP id f4so13375798iea.25 for ; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:24:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=frLaTEDuXDQKb6WLDWkFYpRbqTo0kysUvthTICJwQZQ=; b=eH12GCL0oHyojFvfr9FV+gIzxhy8YJ0bfdBzrzrb7VszylhQeM10M/N6KiIN3UpsN8 TBHuACw1t9s+JLfwyNBEnFw1jb0rDb+CSJvdAud65NI3qf/1Dtt4MmQ1F0JPZGZDT4wt rlGzQbbuQnvg4BjSDyDIdg2SrlVGSxxGoyeZk9/YN5LeacOiTvWDp1yjFu3uPfscmtH1 Tv1f0cNKjC+8ITEuvlzafSajgSA/PC3/7qMt8BJIdVPyiD2dcLgFI8DcZuhTW47uEyYH W93IgQIuDQDTWJcoL7U3b8j/JuoyZHY/bQFsvn5BlQEOKlZlJdB5XY8FA4bybBy3IzZT Wv+g== X-Received: by 10.50.73.106 with SMTP id k10mr10973155igv.31.1373412272962; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:24:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.64.19.179 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 16:24:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [216.93.242.164] In-Reply-To: <20130709231808.GA92444@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <201307091642.r69GgjXF071178@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20130709231808.GA92444@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> From: "Christopher J. Umina" Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 19:24:12 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: why fortran mailing list? To: Steve Kargl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnNjPVv2p48HQ9lA+/oKRs+FE+gA2/+T5BEAKi0a28Rf6MQy9w9Crvhbzvqi0Cq1WRRw1ug Cc: mexas@bristol.ac.uk, freebsd-fortran@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-fortran@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Fortran on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 23:24:34 -0000 Fortran is pretty much a standard in the scientific world and I for one have been quite upset about the fact that I'm constantly forced away from FreeBSD for such things. Needless to say I was quite surprised that a list was created specifically for Fortran discussion, but I'm also very excited to see the level of interest in the community. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:42:45PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> Steve, you beat me to post the first message... > > Well, I scan the email archives every few days, and I > was surprised to see a Fortran specific list. > >> I suggested this list in: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2013-June/022145.html >> >> In addition to the reasons in that post, >> here's one more: this list might >> be a better maintainer than ports@ for >> several fortran related ports. >> > > The few ports that I use, which need Fortran, seem to just > work. This is probably due to the backwards compatibility > of Fortran 2008 with F2003, F95, F90, and F77. OpenMPI is > the only Fortran code that I routinely build outside of the > ports. > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fortran@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fortran > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fortran-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Christopher J. Umina chris@uminac.com 781 354 0535