Re: [tree-ssa] Maintaining g95

[Nick Burrett <nick dot burrett at btinternet dot com>]

Toon Moene wrote:
> Ben Elliston wrote:
>
> > Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org> writes:
> >
> > > We thing we're now ready for inclusion. Nothing special needs to be
> > > done: just drop in the g95 and libgfor directories, and a small
> > > patch to teach toplevel configure about libgfor.
> >
> >
> > libgfor seems like an award name -- it's not clear what "for" stands
> > for. [:-)] Is it the G95 runtime?  If so, how about libg95?
>
>
> Indeeed - an award-winning name :-) - What we try to achieve is to 
> loosen the strings between the GNU Fortran 95 project and the Fortran 95 
> standard.  In about a year there will be a new standard (informally 
> known as Fortran 2000); obviously we want to expand the compiler (and 
> run time library to embrace that standard.  It won't be helpful to be 
> bound to the `g95' name, then ...

If you are to do that, then shouldn't the compiler sources reside in a 
directory not bound to the 'g95' name ?

Regards,


Nick.