From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 22 00:27:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17615 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:27:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.eecis.udel.edu (louie.udel.edu [128.175.2.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA17609 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:27:51 -0800 (PST) From: alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu Message-Id: <199812220827.AAA17609@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from ren.eecis.udel.edu by mail.eecis.udel.edu id aa28739; 22 Dec 1998 03:27 EST To: Steve Kargl Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Fortran conundrum Organization: Mos Eisley Candy Store Reply-To: alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In Reply to Your Message of Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22: 49:19 PST Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 03:27:36 -0500 From: Jerry Alexandratos Message-ID: <199812220327.aa28739@mail.eecis.udel.edu> Steve Kargl says: : As I promised Mike Smith, I have been looking over the Fortran : situation in -current. From the last round of email, we had : essentially 3 opinions: : : (1) Status quo : (2) Upgrade to g77 -- g77 produces "better" code than f2c+gcc, and it : (3) Rip Fortran out of the base distribution. : : Comments? Hey, maybe this would be a good time to revisit the idea of moving to egcs as our compiler toolchain. 8) --Jerry 8) Jerry Alexandratos % - % "Nothing inhabits my (8 8) alexandr@louie.udel.edu % - % thoughts, and oblivion (8 8) darkstar@strauss.udel.edu % - % drives my desires." (8 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message