netcdf orphaned; Fortran integration

[Michael Sternberg]

Hello Kevin,

On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:13 , Kevin Ballard wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Michael Sternberg wrote:
>> The netcdf port seems orphaned:
>> 	http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports/ 
>> science/netcdf/Portfile
> Great. Perhaps you'd like to become the maintainer of the port?

After some hesitation, I decided I might as well, and get some practice.


>> Q1: Is it OK to use a commercial compiler?
>
> I have no idea if there's a general policy on that. By use do you  
> mean the compiler's used to install the port, or the installed port  
> utilizes the compiler? If it's the former, I'd say try and use an  
> open-source compiler for which a Portfile exists (gcc41 includes  
> fortran95 support, for example). If it's the latter, it's probably  
> ok but someone else really should chime in here.

Nothing yet.  But, I noticed a gfortran dependency in the FFTW lib  
(which I also looked at, but it's very obtuse to build with ifort due  
to compiler-specific C-Fortran interface hackery).


Regards, Michael