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

[Jerry DeLisle]

On 01/03/2010 09:57 AM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> 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.
>

See the attached updated file.

> 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?

Up front I have defined GNU Fortran as GFortran and used GFortran in all places 
where appropriate.  We should not mix the vernacular with the invocation.
>
> 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.

These are in the wiki.  I agree, and will update the wiki.
>
> 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?

I think its OK for now as you have left it.

>
> 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.)

I fixed the link to point to svn.html.  Regarding the contributing section, I 
would like to leave it as I have edited it for now.  We want to present to 
people interested in Fortran and allow them to browse into the main GCC 
information.  (isn't that what hyper-links are for?  :) )

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

I referenced both the wiki page and the official GCC on-line docs page.

I hope this version works better. OK to commit?

Regards,

Jerry
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