[wwwdocs, gfortran) Finally an update to our web page

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Sun Jan 3 17:57:00 GMT 2010


On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> I will clean it up and resubmit.  In the meantime, I am waiting for 
> content comments as well.

There is one thing I am wondering about now and than, and that is
"GNU Fortran" vs "gfortran".  The current web page uses both which
may be a bit confusing?

Along these lines, I would no longer refer to g95 and remove
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/TheOtherGCCBasedFortranCompiler altogether
at this point.  That was important originally, when GNU Fortran
started, now I'd argue from a stronger position.

I noticed that http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranDistros which is
referenced from the page, is not quite up-to-date.  I updated the
entry for SUSE, but those aware of other distros should check those.
Or do we want to strip this a bit, now that GNU Fortran is pretty
well entrenched?

Have you considered simply removing the first paragraph Contributing 
section?  Seeing how well established GNU Fortran is as part of GCC these 
days, I would think it is not necessary any more to repeat what we have on 
the main page, and keep the page crisp and focusing on Fortran specifics? 
(That part still refers to CVS, not sure how that escaped me updating the 
web page back then; my bad.)

For Documentation, do we want to directly refer to /onlinedocs instead,
perhaps?  Less indirection and less work to keep up-to-date. ;-)

Gerald



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