http://g95.sourceforge.net or http://gcc-g95.sourceforge.net

[Steven Bosscher]

Andreas Meier wrote:

>Hello,
>
>on the front ends site is a link to http://g95.sourceforge.net/, but now
>http://g95.sourceforge.net/ shall be integrated. Are these projects the same or
>
You mean http://gcc-g95.sourceforge.net

The link was not updated because forks are generally not a good thing in 
the Free software business.  The G95 project is still the official GNU 
Fortran 95 project in the GNU software database, but gcc-g95 is the 
project that will be integrated in GCC.

>in what are these different? Why exists 2 projects g95 for gcc?
>  
>
The gcc-g95 project forked from the original g95 
<http://g95.sourceforge.net> project because the maintainer of the 
original project, Andy Vaught, is obviously a good programmer (he wrote 
most of the parser), but he has shown over and over again that he is a 
difficult maintainer to work together with on "his" project.  He scared 
away many contributors with his style of maintaining the project, and he 
made it almost impossible to integrate g95 in GCC, which in fact, was 
not his primary goal at all (his words).

Paul Brook and I decided to fork because we wish to integrate g95 in 
GCC, and because we want to "open up" the project and allow more people 
to contribute.

That does not make this whole fork issue any better, and we would still 
prefer to work with Andy.  He has been making steady progress in his own 
tree just like we have, but he has decided to only distribute binaries 
but to keep the source code to himself, unfortunately.  We are trying to 
work towards a solution for this.

Gr.
Steven