>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joe> But before fighting the political battles, we should first figure out if Joe> this is what we really want to do if there weren't political obstacles. Joe> Let's try coming to a technical consensus first. I made a list of things which would have to be addressed, based mostly on this thread. - Make ecj emit .jar files - Change ecj's error reporting format Right now it is quite ugly and doesn't conform to GNU standards. - Consider putting column numbers in debug info Though as far as I know, nothing uses this today, so I think this is low priority. - Check compile time performance. We don't want to slow gcj down too much. - Make bootstrapping simpler. Some small library refactorings would make it quite simple, amounting to downloading a single jar file. - Exception regions as mentioned by Andrew. I'm not sure what we need to do here. - Fix variable slot tracking for bytecode I don't recall exactly what the problem here was. These last two are already present in today's compiler, though switching to ecj would exacerbate the situation. Tom
