Re: [patch, wwwdocs] onlinedocs: Update link names for "GNU Fortran"

[Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>]

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> Hi Toon,
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Toon Moene wrote:
>>> the Fortran compiler is now called "GNU Fortran Compiler" it used to be
>>> called "GNU Fortran 95 Compiler", but the "95" has been dropped since
>>> 4.2.0.
>> I would argue the other way around.  Although GFortran *currently* is 
>> mostly a Fortran 95 compiler, that isn't it's ultimate frontier.  To me 
>> that frontier is to track recent Fortran Standardisation efforts (if at 
>> all possible) and hence refrain from putting a year designation into the 
>> name of our efforts.
> 
> is it possible there is no actual disagreement? ;-)
> 
> My reading of Tobias' explanation and the patch itself is that he
> only added "95" for those older branches where the documentation
> itself actually uses that to bring the link in line with the actual
> documentation it points towards, and that he did not use "95" for
> the current development stream which does not use that any longer.

Ugh, sorry - I should have refrained from commenting, as Tobias' 
original mail didn't arrive at my system (probably timed out while I was 
at Ottawa).

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