Re: new: devel/fpm - fortran package manager

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 12:14:06PM +0200, Sebastien Marie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The attached tarball is a port for https://fpm.fortran-lang.org/ (code source at
> https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/).

New tarball with some modifications:
- removing trailing whitespaces in pkg/DESCR (from landry@)
- proper MASTER_SITES for downloading the bootstrap (from rsadowski@)

Thanks.
--
Sebastien Marie

> From pkg/DESCR:
>
> Fortran Package Manager (fpm) is a package manager and build system for Fortran.
> Its key goal is to improve the user experience of Fortran programmers. It does
> so by making it easier to build your Fortran program or library, run the
> executables, tests, and examples, and distribute it as a dependency to other
> Fortran projects. Fpm's user interface is modeled after Rust's Cargo, so if
> you're familiar with that tool, you will feel at home with fpm. Fpm's long term
> vision is to nurture and grow the ecosystem of modern Fortran applications and
> libraries.
>
> Fpm is an early prototype and is evolving rapidly. You can use it to build and
> package your Fortran projects, as well as to use existing fpm packages as
> dependencies. Fpm's behavior and user interface may change as it evolves,
> however as fpm matures and we enter production, we will aim to stay backwards
> compatible. Please follow the issues to contribute and/or stay up to date with
> the development. Before opening a bug report or a feature suggestion, please
> read our Contributor Guide. You can also discuss your ideas and queries with the
> community in fpm discussions, or more broadly on Fortran-Lang Discourse.
>
> Fortran Package Manager is not to be confused with Jordan Sissel's fpm, a more
> general, non-Fortran related package manager.
>
> It is written in (modern-)fortran and use itself for building. Upstream provides
> a plain one-file fortran version for bootstrapping it.
>
> It uses two external dependencies which I vendored in the port (tarballs are
> downloaded as part of the port), and I patched fpm.toml file to use them instead
> of getting them with git(1).
>
> The build is done in 3 stages:
> - the bootstrap is built
> - fpm (with patches) is built using the bootstrap
> - fpm (with patches) is built using fpm (with patches)
>
> The third step is necessary as fpm adds compilation flags on the build, and the
> patches modifies them. As it build relatively quickly, I don't think it is a
> problem (less than 2 minutes for all the steps).
>
> The default profile used is 'egfortran', so it could works out-of-box with g95
> installed (instead of using 'gfortran' which doesn't exist in OpenBSD ports).
>
> I didn't added RUN_DEPENDS on g95 as it could work with several fortran
> compilers and I don't want to stick to one specifically.
>
> Comments or OK to import ?
> --
> Sebastien Marie