From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 10 9: 9:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E636D15111 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:09:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id BAA28374; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:06:51 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <370F6F7A.76A4058F@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:34:18 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: loverso@sitaranetworks.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. References: <19990409155258.A3791@shale.csir.co.za> <370E0C68.3F59295C@newsguy.com> <370E1B31.A35C417@sitara.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "John R. LoVerso" wrote: > > > Right or wrong, you forgot: > > > > 5. BSD tradition. > > > > Case 5 justifies Fortran. > > By that logic, you'd also have to add a Pascal compiler to the base system. Does gcc has a Pascal? :-) I think we have a Pascal doc under share. > Neither makes much sense when they can both be ports (or packages) easily > addable at install or compile time by the small % of the FreeBSD population that > will actually use them. You are taking for granted the easyness. g77 is part of egcs. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "nothing better than the ability to perform cunning linguistics" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message