I don't think what I wrote is incorrect; what I said basically was that Fortran support would have to be done by hand and could not piggy-backed off the Python configuration. I also thought the default compiler flags would be satisfactory for a smaller portion of the files to be compiled than is the case with C. I still think both those things. Remember, I wrote what I wrote at a time when it seemed to me that distutils still needed a lot of work on the C side. However, things have changed now in that there is more manpower available, someone has already done a lot of the Fortran work, and distutils itself is farther along. I think we should proceed. If there had been a certain amount of managed manpower available and I was managing the project, I would have seen to it that the documentation for the C side had more priority than Fortran support. I would have wanted C++ support before Fortran too (I haven't followed developments closely -- is that in now?) I keep wondering too what the relationship with SCons should be. Someone wake up Pearu -- he fainted when I agreed with him.