I am less unhappy now, having managed to install gfortran. (There was something broken in our ubuntu package management system, but I managed to fix it luckily).
John 2010/1/21 Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net>: > John Cremona wrote: > >>> I think this is one further example of the point I made less than an hour >>> ago. The removal of the Fortran package was made in sage-4.3.1.rc2, which >>> very quickly becomes 4.3.1, with insufficient time given for testing >>> before >>> making the 4.3.1 release. >>> >> >> I agree -- this is very disappointing. Having done so much testing of >> alpha0, alpha1, alpha 2, rc0, rc1 I then find that I cannot build >> alpha5 or the official release! WHo made this decision? Were we >> given a vote or chance to comment? How hard would it be to make >> version of 4.3.1 which still has gfortran in it? >> >> John >> > > William made the decision on Nov 22nd, 2009 to remove gfortran. > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/b4cf0f10ed040d5d > > on all platforms other than OS X. > > It was added a "Priority: critical" trac ticket a couple of months back, and > merged into sage-4.3.1.rc2 approximately 42 hours ago. > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7485 > > I'm personally not against the removal of a Fortran compiler from Sage, but > I do feel there needs to be a longer gap between the last release candidate > and releases. > > Dave > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > >
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