Re: Lahey Fortran .eq. gfortran

[Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>]

Paul Richard Thomas wrote:
> Did anybody know that they were going to do this?

I did - kind of. John Appleyard of Polyhedron wrote me in February 2012 
that Lahey was considering to base their compiler product on 
GCC/gfortran+gdb as Fujitsu have stopped the development of their 
compiler. And he wanted to get a comment; well, I replied - and didn't 
get any further email. Until February 20, 2013 when he wrote that they 
are at release-candidate stage. (I somehow have missed that email.)

> Whilst a Visual Studio GUI will do great things for the gfortran user base, I wonder if they have thought to provide some assistance for the development of gfortran either by directly supporting a developer or, at very least, getting users to help out with bug reporting?

I assume that they will at least help by submitting bug reporting as 
that's is in mutual interest. I think they focus(ed) on the integration 
with Windows (Visual Studio 2012 Shell), which is not directly related 
to gfortran and gdb. Now that their first Lahey/GNU Fortran release is 
out, they might have more time looking at other issues; but only the 
future will tell, to which extent they will directly contribute to the 
development of gfortran.

In any case, it is useful for Windows developers to have access to a 
gfortran-based compiler which fully integrates into Visual Studio.

> Anyway, it is a great endorsement of our efforts.

Indeed.

Tobias