Fpm version 0.8.1 released

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We just released fpm version 0.8.1, which introduces hotfixes for unnecessary dependency updates. Many thanks to @urbanjost, @everythingfunctional and everyone who contributed to the debugging.

Find the full v0.8.1 release notes here or on GitHub .

The development of fpm v0.8 was sponsored by the Sovereign Tech Fund .

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… out-of-date … :face_with_peeking_eye:

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Interesting comment re: Sovereign Tech Fund, “However, the language is complex to use and out-of-date.”

@milancurcic , @rouson, @awvwgk et al., would you know the specific aspects re: climate modeling (and any other) that led to the above comment at the Sovereign Tech Fund page?

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Well, they’ll be surprised by the amount of modernization! :slight_smile:

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I followed the relnotes link, then proceeded to main fpm page, “Install fpm”. Did the “Homebrew” instructions, got … version 0.5.0 :frowning:

Edit: that 0.5.0 version does not even work, relying on /usr/local/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/11/libgfortran.5.dylib library which I do not have (gcc is already v. 12)

So it seems that the Homebrew part of “Install fpm” instructions should be either updated or deleted.

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The custom tap for homebrew has always been a bit shaky. Installing from source and ignoring the provided bottles might help.

A more stable homebrew support could be archived by submitting to homebrew/core rather than running our own tap. I have never really been interested to submit the fpm formula since I’m neither a brew nor a MacOS user and was hoping that somebody would pick this up (see fpm#400 for original discussion two years ago).

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@msz59 would you mind trying the (experimental) Homebrew formula for fpm-0.8.1 on my fork?

brew tap perazz/fortran
brew install perazz/fortran/fpm

@awvwgk on Homebrew, there’s no other choice than to use its own Fortran compiler - why don’t we avoid pre-building bottles, and have brew always install fpm from sources? until fpm is a smallish project, it would drastically simplify the CI.

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It worked fine, thank you. From what I have seen while installing, fpm was built from source.

==> Installing perazz/fortran/fpm
==> Using Homebrew-provided Fortran compiler
This may be changed by setting the FC environment variable.
==> pwd
==> sh ./install.sh --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/fpm/0.8.1
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/fpm/0.8.1: 6 files, 1.4MB, built in 1 minute 57 seconds
==> Running `brew cleanup fpm`...

After successful install, it reports 0.8.1 version.

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