-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I am in the process of testing updates of dev-lang/icc dev-lang/icc and sci-libs/mkl on the tree. Right now, I just put an update of these packages together with sci-libs/ipp in the gentooscience overlay. The Linux versions of a bunch of Intel products come with non-commercial licenses [1], but this license is quite restrictive [2]. So before I carry on more testing and push them to the tree, I would like feed-back on the following points. - - I've seen various mentions or bugs request to remove Intel products from the tree. Are we willing to keep these packages? Keeping up with updates and bugs is not trivial mainly because upstream always changes packaging style and are large packages (sometimes 300Mb) - - do you see a need, or significant performance increases with the compilers? Up to gcc/gfortran-4.2, ifc was the only complete FORTRAN-95 compiler in portage, so there was a definite need among the scientific community. - - in the past, they were fetch-restricted. I don't really see why in the documents I've read mirror-restricted should not be enough. Obviously anyone willing to help on the process is welcome. Regards, - -- Sébastien [1] http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/340679.htm [2] http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/219692.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG1uC41ycZbhPLE2ARAlRnAJ94enzEM6mcf4o22WLW9q3JO/T5KwCdHKs4 vTKxHAGfXQQACXdkAWLhUK4= =tFfH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
