Re: Testing and honesty
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:48:45PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:44:02PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> > I run Stable on the servers I administer, but 100% of them have to use some
> > hand-compiled or backported software, or they'd be unusable.
> I really don't think that is a completely fair description. For scientific computation,
> stable is really quite usable, accept for the absence of a fortran 95 compiler, serious
> for some. I am using a very nice DFT tool (extremely fast) that is written exclusively
> in fortran 77, so I am, at this point, immune.
You know more about that than I do, since I do and support no scientific
computation.
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