ASIS:Linux vs ms

'' RG comments: More will follow here after we at Bristol have discussed this further (probably late June or July 2008).

Some members of the group use a development environment on windows for their fortran programming. This environment includes a debugger. It also interrogates the code to establish dependancies, so a seperate makefile is not required. I think it uses only the ifort compiler.

Some members use Linux. This requires a little more effort on the part of the developer. The developer has to write their own makefile. Emacs is probably the text editor of choice. It supports the user as far as compilation debugging, but not for runtime debugging. Debugging can be done using ddd, but ddd does not work smoothly for all compilers. It probably works better with g95 and gfortran. We have had problems trying to use it with ifort. ''