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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Christoph Deil < deil.christoph@googlemail.com> wrote:
On that note … a thought for scipy 1.0 :
Does scipy absolutely need Fortran in general? Or are there equivalent C or C++ packages that might be used instead?
Not really. Not with BSD-like licenses, at any rate.
Getting rid of Fortran code would simplify life for Mac users (and maybe Windows or even Linux). I don't really know how much Fortran is used in scipy or libraries it depends on, or how much of a problem Fortran really is. I'm just asking if getting rid of Fortran is an option even worth considering for scipy 1.0.
scipy 2.0, maybe. It will be a *lot* of work to find and write replacements for everything, not to mention that the replacements will probably not work the same as the current code. -- Robert Kern