math/slatec - worth fixing deleted language features?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu Sat Jul 20 23:23:52 2013
>
>On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 06:37:45PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> Anybody uses math/slatec?
>
>I don't use it currently.  When I was actively contributing to
>gfortran (to ensure that gfortran worked on FreeBSD), I fed
>routinely fed slatec into gfortran looking for bugs.
>
>> This is a collection of >1400 f77 routines.
>> The problem is that there is no upstream anymore,
>> and the code has deleted features, e.g.:
>
>(snip)
>
>> Fixing each individual deleted feature is not that hard.
>
>There is nothing to fix.  You will be hard pressed to find
>a Fortran, which works on FreeBSD, that does not support
>the deleted features used by slatec.
>
>> In addition, there is a risk of introducing new bugs.
>> The library, as it is, is supposed to be thoroughly tested.
>
>This is why compilers still support the deleted features.  Code
>written 50 years will still compile and work.
>
>> 
>> So I'll asking for opinions on what to do
>> with math/slatec; (1) nothing - leave as it is,
>
>yes

ok, thanks

Anton