Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 15:46:53 -0800 (PST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jd1008@gmail.com Subject: Re: Fortran compiler Message-ID: <201601162346.u0GNkqOt044711@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <569AD1F6.7010008@gmail.com>
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>>> When will the base system ship with a fortran compiler? >> >> Almost certainly never. >> >> >>> Why not resurrect the old f77? >>> >> Why don't you do it and not burden base with your niche desires? >> >What a nasty NASTY response to a very very valid request. Calm down. What is and isn't in the base is decided, to a degree, by the majority of users, partly by the base developers/committers and partly by the core. Therefore what is in the base os changes with time. I think the prevailing opinion lately has been to make the base as small as possible, for many reasons, and to make ports/packages as easy as possible to install. As a Fortran user, I agree with this approach. Regarding f77 - I cannot see a single reason why f77 would be preferable to gfortran. If you have any problems using Fortran on FreeBSD, mail freebsd-fortran@. Anton
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