Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:37:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Removal of libobjc from the base system Message-ID: <463183.28445.qm@web113513.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <A784A886-1F22-4694-A2D8-22D9BB4F153A@samsco.org>
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=0A--- On Mon, 4/18/11, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:=0A...=0A> > Y= eah it's too outdated to be of any use.=0A> > =0A> > IMHO, you can axe libf= 2c too...=0A> > =0A> =0A> Honest question here, is there a newer version of= libf2c=0A> that lives in ports and is adopted by people who use=0A> fortra= n?=A0 The one that I find in the base system seems=0A> to be a similar matc= h to the one in ports/devel/f2c.=A0=0A> Is the one in the base system a pai= n to maintain or=0A> otherwise holding back other work, or has it been made= =0A> obsolete by something in ports?=A0 Is removing it from=0A> the base sy= stem anything more than just churn?=0A> =0A=0AI am a moderate user of Fortr= an: when I need it I use=0Agfortran instead of f2c. lang/f2c is in the port= s tree,=0Aand the one port I made (tochnog) that actually depends=0Aon libf= 2c uses the port, not the system library.=0A=0AConsidering we are not carry= ing fortran in base anymore,=0Ait would seem logical to kill libf2c, but it= must be said=0Athe f2c port originates in netlib, I have no idea where=0At= he GPL'd libf2c comes from or if there is any significant=0Adifference.=0A= =0Acheers,=0A=0APedro.=0A
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