Bumping of libgfortran major version number and git

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 09:09:46AM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> 
> I plan to submit a patch for approval that will bump the
> libgfortran version number and do a few cleanup things.
> I have the impression that we have a consensus on this.
> I think it should be done before GCC 7 release.

Hopefully, Janne chimes in.  I believe he hasi/had thought about
how to go about addressing some of the issues listed on the wiki.

>
> I also think the fortran-dev branch is very close to a clean
> merge with trunk.  Of course I could be mistaken (IMHO)
>

I haven't followed fortran-dev for a few years now.  I thought
development on the array descriptor reform was stalled at adding
in extent.

Both are appropriate for stage 1 development, so I no problem 
with going ahead with the changes.  I'll try to help cleanup
any fallout.

-- 
Steve