add topic interoperability

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add topic interoperability

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 9 comments

I suggest adding the topic interoperability in the About section.

Answer 1 · 2022-01-26T00:02:02.000Z

Thanks for the thought! I'm not a Fortran expert; are you referring to C <-> Fortran interoperability, or something else? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by the "About section", which isn't one of the sections of the POD documentation?

Answer 2 · 2022-01-26T00:04:26.000Z

I believe what @Beliavsky means is add it to the GitHub topics. Sure, I can do that.

Answer 3 · 2022-01-26T00:04:57.000Z

Done! Let me know if there is anything else.

Answer 4 · 2022-01-26T00:08:11.000Z

That makes sense!

Answer 5 · 2022-01-27T23:32:25.000Z

@Beliavsky This is a bit off-topic, sorry - feel free to ignore if you prefer. PDL supplies two Fortran libraries and builds them if a Fortran compiler is present (a major use for this module, in fact). In order to operate correctly on both 32- and 64-bit platforms, I updated the Slatec and Minuit libraries bundled in PDL. Is there any interest in me contributing those changes to an upstream copy of Slatec / Minuit, if such exists?

Answer 6 · 2022-01-28T01:50:32.000Z

There is not a meaningful upstream for SLATEC. Last release was in 1993, only two minor corrections since then, last in 1999. I don't think it is currently maintained. GSL was intended to be a replacement. So I'm not sure there's any place to send those SLATEC changes. Minuit seems to be similarly opaque, and largely replaced by an OO C++ interface Minuit2.

Answer 7 · 2022-01-28T02:53:31.000Z

That would make sense! Perhaps PDL should have a Minuit2 interface. That does sort of suggest the Minuit interface in PDL could usefully (because of quicker builds and a slightly reduced maintenance burden) be removed?

Answer 8 · 2022-01-28T22:18:58.000Z

@Beliavsky What do you think of the fortran-lang organisation hosting Slatec? Do you have comms with the netlib folks at all?

Answer 9 · 2022-02-01T05:11:42.000Z

I see a discussion of porting that functionality into stdlib here fortran-lang/stdlib#179. But nothing about the whole SLATEC library being incorporated as far as I can tell. There has been some work on updating parts of SLATEC to F90 https://people.math.sc.edu/Burkardt/f_src/slatec/slatec.html and here is an update of one specifically on GitHub https://github.com/fortran-lang/fftpack.