Re: Inline::F2003 - New ILSM proposed

From: Ron Grunwald via inline
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2017 10:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Inline::F2003 - New ILSM proposed
Hi all,

> I'm not sure how many people are still subscribed to this list, but today 
> I would like to announce the first release of Inline::F2003.

It will reach a whole lot more perl folk if you also announce it at 
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Perl%20News .
(Scroll down to the bottom of that page to get to the relevant text boxes.)
You can post to perlmonks without signing up.

>The URL is https://sourceforge.net/projects/inline-f2003/
>There are several reasons why I decided to release the module on 
>Sourceforge rather than CPAN. First, I feel that this initial release is 
>not yet sufficiently mature to be a standalone CPAN module. The other 
>reason is that I'm not sure if the Inline community would allow me to use 
>the "Inline::" namespace in the module name.

There's no reason that you should not use the "Inline" namespace ... and 
there are very good reasons that you should *not* use anything other than 
the "Inline" namespace.

> I am highly motivated to produce a high quality module that allows Perl to 
> interoperate with modern FORTRAN. This initial release was developed and 
> tested on Linux only. However, I would still encourage users to try 
> running the program even if their system is non-Linux.
> I am very interested to hear your views and experiences with 
> Inline::F2003. It would be great to see discussion reinvigorated on this 
> list. Thank you for reading this post. I do hope you'll have an 
> opportunity to tryout the program, and report back your findings.

As a brief preliminary play on MS Windows I ran "perl matopmul.pl" and, 
although gfortran is in my PATH, I got:

C:\s>perl matopmul.pl
ERROR: Key name FOR has invalid value ... gfortran
ERROR: Compiler not found in path!
at matopmul.pl line 0.
INIT failed--call queue aborted.

I'm thinking that one should turn out to be simple to fix. (I don't have 
time right now to look at it.)

One thing I did notice is that the README.txt lists me as Inline 
co-maintainer. Although that might technically be true (not even sure about 
that), I haven't been involved in any maintenance of Inline or Inline::C for 
a year or two now and, although I still use and take an interest in those 
modules, I don't intend doing anything beyond perhaps making bug reports or 
submitting patches.
I'm not sure of the state of play at the moment regarding who is doing what 
with Inline - though I notice that, according to CPAN, Tina Muller was 
responsible for the latest release of Inline::C (version 0.78).
So ... I don't really know whose name(s) should be listed as 
"co-maintainers", but I think my name should not.

Anyway - it's good to finally see an Inline fortran module !!

Cheers,
Rob