From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 10 14:23:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142AF153B6 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:23:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA42808; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199904102116.OAA42808@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. In-Reply-To: <199904102030.OAA09814@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Apr 10, 1999 02:30:54 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: reg@shale.csir.co.za (Jeremy Lea), dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral), scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker), handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu (Brian Handy), des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy wrote: > > > 6. Whoever brings patches wins. > > > Steve wrote: > > > > Doesn't apply for getting something *removed* from the tree. > > I've had *patches* and *ports* for f2c and f77 sitting around > > for at least 2 months. Search the mailing list. Nate's comment: > I offered to do the commit work, but Jordan posted that removing Fortran > from the base system wasn't something he considered acceptable, and I > didn't feel like fighting him. Yes, I know you offered, and I did not mean to imply any negative critism. My comments were meant to convey that it takes more than having patches. Once something gets into the base tree, it suddenly gains a large amount of inertia to stay. If I recall, Jordan's position was to maintain the status quo until some decision on importing egcs was made. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message