>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Diego> I posted this question to the SC panel at the GCC Summit today. I Diego> wanted to consider the possibility of making java a non-default language. Andrew> If this were to happen it would break repeatedly. Yeah, our experience back when libgcj was not in the tree was not very good. It broke all the time. But, I am actually ok with having it be disabled by default, provided that regressions affect gcj are treated seriously: fixed in a timely way by the person causing the regression, or, if not, letting gcj maintainers start the patch-reversion clock. If we make this change I'll set up an auto-tester on the compile farm that builds gcj along with everything else. I think this would provide a pretty reasonable compromise. Ideally we could find a PPC box somewhere to do this as well -- anyone have some cycles to spare? What do you think of this? Another idea is to build jc1 but not libgcj. That would prevent a certain (more minor) class of breakage. What is behind my thinking here is just the fact that gcj development has dropped off quite a bit. Tom
