On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Paul Roebuck wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Simon Urbanek wrote: > >>>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm currently serving as a committee member at MacResearch.org, >>>>> a website devoted to science, math, and statistics on Macs. In >>>>> about two weeks, we'll be visiting Apple to talk about issues, >>>>> needs, desires of science users and developers: >>>>> http://www.macresearch.org/ >>>>> macresearch_science_related_requests_for_apple >>>>> [SNIP] >>>>> What feedback can I pass along? >> >> [SNIP X11 comments] >> >> Concerning R itself, my only worry (and a big headache) is the >> lack of Fortran support in Xcode. We have to install parallel >> compilers and system libraries which is a maintenance nightmare... > > To be fair, I don't expect Apple to officially support Fortran. It > WOULD be really nice, if they made sure they didn't break the G95 > compiler with their other GCC changes and provided it unsupported > as an optional Xcode tool from available on their developer website. >
I could live with that. Providing unsupported binaries would be great. Even just not breaking gfortran in their branch would be a huge step forward. It's not optimal (because we'd still have to deal with system updates), but better than the status quo. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
