From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 16 13:45:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17402 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17397 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:45:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA08516; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:44:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA25406; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:44:49 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:44:49 -0700 Message-Id: <199812162144.OAA25406@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Nate Williams , Steve Kargl , bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) In-Reply-To: References: <199812162109.OAA24884@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > One more plus, for FreeBSD users but not FreeBSD maintainers is that > Fortran upkeep will be manditory, ei. marking fortran as 'broken' wouldn't > happen. This isn't a plus. Because f77 is in the core, it's never maintained. If it were outside the core, it would be easier for someone to maintain it. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message