On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Gérard Milmeister wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 18:58 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:18:10 -0500, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I hope the fortran part of gcc4 has caught up [to do everything > > > > gcc3-f77 does]. I guess I should go back and try gcc4 again. > > > > > > Which reminds me. Is fortran really used by enough people to justify > > > its presence in -core ? (Even if so, does it really need to be in the > > > default install?) > > > > It's still used quite a bit in natural sciences (e.g. Physics, > > Chemistry, etc), but if it's moved to extras, nobody will miss it, > > since the admins will know where to find it. The question is -- can it > > be successfully unmarried from the rest of gcc? > > Doesn't octave require it to build? octave is a personal favorite of mine (I use it as my "calculator" app on Linux). It really needs to move to Extras, though. -- Elliot
