Re: Hackathon, July 30 -- August 2

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On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 02:21:56AM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>   Hello!
> 
> 
> We're running 14th Hackathon July 30 -- August 2,
> come and join us on IRC channel #netbsd-code at FreeNode (irc.freenode.net).
> You may choose other ways to participate (e.g. mailing lists), if you find it
> more convenient.
> 
> 
> Goals for this Hackathon:
> 
> 
> 1. Improve Fortran support.
> 
> Separate dialects: introduce "fortran77" and convert all packages that use
> Fortran-77 to use it (default compiler is "f2c"), use "fortran" to denote
> more modern dialect (default compiler is "g95" until we have gfortran).
> 
> Update packages that depend on more modern dialect.
> 
> Allow packages to use modern Fortran (e.g. MPICH2, OpenMPI).
> 
> Add gfortran support.
> 
> 
> 2. Update TCL and Tk.
> 
> Update TCL and Tk to 8.5 or (better) 8.6.
> 
> Update depending packages respectively.

Any people interested in this Tcl component should note that Tcl and
Tk 8.5.8 are in 'wip' (grab it at sourceforge if you don't have it
already). Please think about ideas for maintaining 2 (or more: 8.4, 8.5,
8.6?) versions of Tcl and Tk.

WIP can be found at:
http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/

> 3. Improve and extend testing support
> 
> Write tests for infrastructure.
> 
> Add TEST_DEPENDS.
> 
> Add TEST_TARGET to packages where possible.
> 
> Fix packages to pass their tests where possible.
> 
> 
> 
> And as usually hunt bugs and perform other tasks we don't find time for.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> HE CE3OH...



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