[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

At 03:44 27/05/2006, Steve Kargl wrote:
>In a recent email to freebsd-current,
>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-May/063435.html
>Alexander Kabaev stated that the import of GCC 4.1.1 is coming soon.
>
>I propose that Fortran support in the base system be removed
>when GCC 4.1.1 is imported. [etc]

No problem with removing it from base, but be under no illusion that 
Fortran support can be deprecated. There's all sorts of scientific 
software in wide use written in Fortran, that's not likely to change 
in the foreseeable future.

We're using ifc because we get much better performance for our 
application (dense gas dispersion modelling - run times can be tens of hours).

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