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Re: gfortran binaries download
- From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- To: FX Coudert <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Fortran List <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:19:09 -0700
- Subject: Re: gfortran binaries download
- References: <3635927F-80EC-48E4-92CA-CFF8395F42E8@gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 10:28:59AM +0100, FX Coudert wrote:
>
> - People are still download the linux package even when
> gfortran-4.1 is probably available in major distros; the download
> count isn't even going down! I think we have a number of people
> regularly testing the latest compiler, which is in line with bug-
> reports we get from non-contributors that nevertheless use the
> mainline compiler
> - The Windows user base is large and growing, especially for
> MinGW, despite the fact that the current package is 4+ months old
> - The Intel-MacOS package is already more downloaded than the
> PowerPC-MacOS
>
As a side note, FreeBSD doesn't show up in FX's graph because most
FreeBSD users will use the FreeBSD Ports Collection. Recently, the
Ports Collection has standardized on using gfortran 4.2 (pre-release)
as the Fortran compiler.
--
Steve