Fortran packages list

[davidpfister]

fpm is a great tool. I really enjoy the simplicity and I use it occasionally to check that my code runs with different compilers (gfortran and ifort mainly). I almost never use it as a package manager though, but rather as a build system.

@Beliavsky

There are lots of FPM projects for “utilities” and numerical methods, and few or zero in scientific domains such as Climate & Weather or Earth Science. Codes in those domains may be large and not be entirely in Fortran, which could be preventing FPM use. Please submit PRs or issues for missing FPM projects. The Python code reading the markdown file of the broader list does have trouble with names such as Ondřej Čertík and Jiří Fürst, even though the code has lines such as

From my own experience, there are few limitations with fpm today that makes it unusable for large projects. I have a large project (hundreds of files), organized in multiple libraries (~100) in a big monorepo:

• On Windows, fpm cannot build projects with too many files (fpm fails at building projects with too many files · Issue #991 · fortran-lang/fpm · GitHub).
• Last time I checked, fpm cannot build dll ([fpm] can fpm be used to build a dynamic link library? - #4 by hkvzjal)
• I did not find a way to link easily local dependencies and other projects that are not in the same repo/folder.

So I keep using it for small test programs, because I really think it’s a great tool. And I am looking forward to the new versions and seeing these issues resolved with time.