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

Mike Stump mrs@apple.com
Mon Jun 2 22:49:00 GMT 2003


On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 05:29 AM, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> 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.

The gcc SC can probably help make gcc-g95 the GNU Fortran 95 project.  
:-)

> 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.

I like your solution to the problem.  :-)

> 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.

:-(

Pretend that is doesn't exist.  The smart people catch up in a day, the 
slow ones might take 3 years, eventually, they will come to understand 
the truth.



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