Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-08-01 Thread Martin Costabel
Daniel Macks wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:59:40AM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On Jul 30, 2005, at 7:21 AM, Max Horn wrote: Fink is not (!) supposed to be a test-bed for an unreleased compiler. It is easy enough to build gcc from cvs. Yes, exactly. Fink is a distribution, not a

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-08-01 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Martin, I'm sorry if we came off as brash and inconsiderate. I definitely was not advising that we shouldn't package gfortran 4.1-CVS out of ideology, or blindly following rules. Hopefully my explanations here can allay your concerns. First, I agree with you that every package should

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-08-01 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 1, 2005, at 5:47 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: Martin, I'm sorry if we came off as brash and inconsiderate. I definitely was not advising that we shouldn't package gfortran 4.1-CVS out of ideology, or blindly following rules. Hopefully my

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-31 Thread Daniel Macks
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:59:40AM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On Jul 30, 2005, at 7:21 AM, Max Horn wrote: Fink is not (!) supposed to be a test-bed for an unreleased compiler. It is easy enough to build gcc from cvs. Yes, exactly. Fink is a distribution, not a testing system.

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-30 Thread Max Horn
Am 28.07.2005 um 19:48 schrieb Jack Howarth: Still one has to ask exactly which compilers in the gcc4 package we should be focusing on? The gfortran compiler specifically is making really good progress. With patches to be added today, it should pass almost all of the NIST Fortran validation

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-30 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 30, 2005, at 7:21 AM, Max Horn wrote: Fink is not (!) supposed to be a test-bed for an unreleased compiler. It is easy enough to build gcc from cvs. Yes, exactly. Fink is a distribution, not a testing system. There's no reason that fink (lowercase, the package manager) can't be

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-28 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 26, 2005, at 12:43 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: Peter, You may have point regarding the 4.1 branch, but I would say that the 4.0.2 branch is highly unlikely to be much less stable for gfortran than the 4.0.1 release is. Again the question really is what is the purpose of the gcc4

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-28 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On 28 Jul 2005, at 17:18, David R. Morrison wrote: Also, there is some danger of confusion between the gcc4 which is a virtual package that the system provides, designed to insure that users have the correct Apple gcc package installed, and the gcc4 package... The virtual pkg is gcc4.0

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-28 Thread Jack Howarth
Still one has to ask exactly which compilers in the gcc4 package we should be focusing on? The gfortran compiler specifically is making really good progress. With patches to be added today, it should pass almost all of the NIST Fortran validation testsuite. I think we would be far better off

[Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Jeffrey, Could you possibly add a gfortran package to fink unstable based off of the main trunk or 4.1 branch? Since g95 and gfortran have heavily forked, any bugs I find and report against g95 aren't easily checked against the current gfortran code to see it the problem exists there. It

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-25 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Howarth wrote: | Jeffrey, | Could you possibly add a gfortran package to fink unstable based off | of the main trunk or 4.1 branch? Since g95 and gfortran have heavily | forked, any bugs I find and report against g95 aren't easily checked |

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Peter, For the features I need from gfortran, I'll need to be on the 4.1 branch. We should be testing that anyway since it is slated for release in Sept. In any case, I am trying the following gfortran.info at the moment...

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-25 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Jack Howarth wrote: Peter, For the features I need from gfortran, I'll need to be on the 4.1 branch. We should be testing that anyway since it is slated for release in Sept. In any case, I am trying the following gfortran.info at the moment... Fink is not, in my opinion, supposed to be a

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Peter, I think one can hardly call the g95 compilers we currently put out as 'released compilers'. These are daily snapshot builds of g95 which are broken and fixed at regular intervals. As for the gcc-4.0.1 package...what is its real purpose? The compilers other than c and c++ are likely

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-25 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Jack Howarth wrote: Peter, I think one can hardly call the g95 compilers we currently put out as 'released compilers'. These are daily snapshot builds of g95 which are broken and fixed at regular intervals. As for the gcc-4.0.1 package...what is its real purpose? The compilers other

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran package

2005-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Peter, You may have point regarding the 4.1 branch, but I would say that the 4.0.2 branch is highly unlikely to be much less stable for gfortran than the 4.0.1 release is. Again the question really is what is the purpose of the gcc4 package? If it is primarily a release mechanism for gfortran,