The goal of this topic is to know what we need to do to have Fortran on Sailfish OS.

I've found that gcc-fortran is not available on Mer :
list of last Mer packages/
Project Mer-core/gcc
The reason seems to be simply the compilation time on ARM :
In June 2013 I've contacted Jolla by email (but I've received no answer) asking the return of gcc-fortran (package which includes gfortran and libraries) to Mer, because :
- the above decision was in 11/2011, now we have faster CPU's (on PC's and smartphones), etc;
- gcc-fortran is :
* useful to anyone who needs to compile Fortran code on device;
* needed as dependency for R-base (statistics language), python-scipy (Python scientific module), etc, or optional dependency for python-numpy (so some NumPy functions become faster) which is dependency of python-pygame (python module for games), python-matplotlib (2D/3D graphics in Python), etc.

What are the options ?
- gcc-fortran should be included by the Mer project when rebuilding "mer-core/gcc.git" (by the Mer-core maintainers) ?
- or gcc-fortran package can be added by the community ?
- or another Fortran (other than gcc-fortran, like g77, f77, etc) can be compiled and package by the community ?