Re: [gentoo-dev] intel packages support

2007-08-30 Thread Stephen Becker
> - - 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. Performance is probably the big thing. A few months ago I tested s

Re: [gentoo-dev] intel packages support

2007-08-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Sébastien Fabbro wrote: > - 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 larg

[gentoo-dev] intel packages support

2007-08-30 Thread Sébastien Fabbro
-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 pr