darwin may lose primary target status on FSF gcc

[Jack Howarth]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:00:31PM -0700, Toby Peterson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 15:53, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 05:44:59PM -0500, Brian Barnes wrote:
> >>
> >> Or, perhaps let's hope that people exist with motive, means and
> >> opportunity to contribute to gcc and keep it working on OS X, and are
> >> able to do so.  I would rather not lose future updates to the only fast,
> >> free Fortran compiler on OS X.  I cannot comprehend why you wish for some
> >> of us to lose our tools with no fast, free replacement even vaguely in
> >> sight.
> >>
> >> Brian
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> >
> >   That answer is easy. Toby doesn't need them.
> 
> While that is true, the main thing is that this discussion belongs elsewhere.
> 
> This is macports-dev
> 
> - Toby

Toby,
   Well it directly impacts one of your ports (regardless of how much you
detest that particular package) and all other ports like octave that depend
on it.
        Jack