iso c binding

[Christopher D. Rickett]

the paperwork will not be done in time for 4.2.  i've been pushing the 
people here at LANL as much as i can, and they are moving faster.  i 
apologize that it wasn't done sooner.

Chris

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Steve Kargl wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:45:15AM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > ps What exactly are the rules about patches without
> > paperwork? It puzzled me that those patches weren't
> > posted so that folks could test against them as
> > was the case with the allocatable arrays patches
> > (or is there a problem with doing that before the
> > paperwork is completed)?
> 
> Erik and pault had assignments on file, so submitting
> intermediate patches for testing did not taint anyone
> else.  For Chris's patch, neither he nor ANL have 
> paperwork on file.  If ANL suddenly restricted Chris
> from submitting a patch after he had sent preview
> patchies, then anyone who read the preview patches
> would need to take care in implementing ISO C Binding
> to avoid copyright issues.
> 
> To answer your original question:  ISO C binding
> will not be in 4.2.
> 
> -- 
> Steve
>