[Numpy-discussion] g77

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Is there any reason to keep support for g77?
>

Yes. The Windows binary builds still use it. We seem to be getting there
with the Mingw64 toolchain and gfortran, but I'd like to see that proven
(i.e. do a release with it and have that out for >6 months) before
considering dropping g77.


> The last release was in 2006 and gfortran has been available since 2005. I
> admit that there is no reason to drop current support, apart from getting
> rid of some code, so perhaps the question should be: how much work should
> we spend maintaining it?
>

AFAIK gh-5315 is the first PR in a long time that requires extra work for
g77. I'd say that the current extra workload is acceptable.

Ralf
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