From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 10 11:40:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FAC14EE0 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA42133; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:33:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199904101833.LAA42133@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. In-Reply-To: <19990410182316.G6250@shale.csir.co.za> from Jeremy Lea at "Apr 10, 1999 06:23:16 pm" To: reg@shale.csir.co.za (Jeremy Lea) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral), scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker), handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu (Brian Handy), des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy Lea wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 11:19:21PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Right or wrong, you forgot: > > > > 5. BSD tradition. > > > > Case 5 justifies Fortran. > > Me, I'd rather have Fortran as a port. I'd even grudgingly accept > > fortune as a port, as a matter of fact. Our base system is bloated. > > While a lot of widely used programs are only available through > > ports, a lot of obscure and obsolete stuff remains on our tree. They > > are there because of 5. As long as 5 exists, Fortran belongs in the > > tree. If we ever get rid of 5, then it's time to get the knife to > > our tree... Or the axe, if the vikings decide to have the first cut. > > :-) > > Invoking: > > 6. Whoever brings patches wins. > Doesn't apply for getting something *removed* from the tree. I've had *patches* and *ports* for f2c and f77 sitting around for at least 2 months. Search the mailing list. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message