Fortran recipe

[Chris Jones]

On 25 Aug 2013, at 8:14pm, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Aug 25, 2013, at 13:51, Chris Jones  wrote:
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>> On 25 Aug 2013, at 07:29 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> On Aug 25, 2013, at 12:56, Chris Jones wrote:
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>>>> Its not clear to me if we also need to remove the variants that build with Macports clang. As I understand things these aren't affected by the c++ runtime issues ? These variants are still useful, for instance if the users wants to use the cocoa graphical backend, as these only works when built with clang, so on systems that don't use this as a default compiler, its convenient to have the clang variants as a fall back.
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>>> Are there any drawbacks to using clang? If not, maybe you should blacklist those compilers that won't build the cocoa backend. That way the cocoa backend will always be available.
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>> It won't help, as i think only on OSX 10.8 is there a system clang compiler that works with the cocoa backend.
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> Why won't it help? We have the compiler_blacklist_versions portgroup you can use to blacklist specific versions of Xcode clang.

yes I guess so, I'm starting to look i to this (I hadn't thought of using white/black lists so far)…

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>> On older OS X versions i suspect macports clang is the only option, and i don't want to make that the default compiler on these systems, just for this one option, that isn't that commonly used anyway.
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> We're already forcing MacPorts clang on older systems on other ports. It's going to become more common, I think.
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> On Aug 25, 2013, at 13:54, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
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>> SL is quite dated at this point...
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> And yet it is the version of OS X that many Mac users still prefer to run. Up to Snow Leopard, every release of OS X was decidedly superior to the previous one, and users enjoyed upgrading to it. As of Lion, many users were unhappy with the changes Apple made in the OS and chose not to upgrade.
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> http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/04/snow-leopard-remains-the-most-popular-version-of-os-x.html
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> I did not upgrade to Lion until new hardware forced me to. My father shows no signs of wanting to upgrade his iMac beyond Snow Leopard. A friend of mine suffered with Mountain Lion on his Mac mini for several months before downgrading back to Snow Leopard with great relief. Hopefully Mavericks will right the wrongs of the past two releases and get more users to upgrade…

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