Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Brian Handy wrote:
>
> > On 9 Apr 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> >
> > >> [4 people said "YES! Add g77!"]
> >
> > >I beg your pardon? You're adding g77 to the system because you know of
> > >four people who would find it useful? Where's the logic in that?
> >
> > Well, statistically speaking, that's a bunch of "ayes" and no "noes".
> > Lots of things happen via implicit acceptance. (I was one of the people
> > who spoke up in favor of this after David mentioned this.)
> >
> > >If you do add it to the base system, make it optional. I don't care if
> > >it defaults to on, as long as I have the option to turn it off.
> >
> > This doesn't seem unreasonable. (I also really like Chuck's idea of
> > adding gcj in the same light.)
>
> Geez, and I used to think it was only the commercial OSs that had a
> problem with bloat and creeping featurisms ... :( Chuck's idea makes more
> sense...how many programs does the average system run that needs a fortran
> compiler? *raised eyebrow*
Personally, I'm not sure g77 is needed, but let me play devil's
advocate here and turn your question around:
"How many programs does the average system not run because
the system doesn't have a FORTRAN compiler?"
That seems to be a more pertinent question... and - a good bit
more difficult to answer.
- Dave Rivers -
(My personal preference is to put it in there, with an option to disable
it in "make world". )
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