darwin may lose primary target status on FSF gcc

[Toby Peterson]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 15:08, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:02:00PM -0700, Toby Peterson wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 14:43, Brian Barnes <bcbarnes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The llvm/clang community appears to have nobody / very few people interested
>> > in implementing a Fortran front-end
>>
>> Only one way to change that...
>
>   I suspect a careful review of the gfortran progress will show
> that it only gained traction when programmers contracted to improve
> it came on board. Expecting a 'grass-roots' fortran project to
> viable is a bit unrealistic. Only if FSF gcc became unbuildable
> on darwin might a company feel the need to expend funds on such
> a project.

In that case let's hope it becomes unbuildable sooner rather than later.

- Toby