Joe Buck wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:10:27PM -0700, Kirill Kononenko wrote: >> One of the many options is in using the Common Intermediate Language >> and .NET to store portable programs. Does this sound like a good idea >> to you? > > To the extent that the effect is to create a portable binary format, > I expect that the FSF would say "no, this is not a good idea at all!". > This is because they seem to promote the sharing and modification of > source code, not bytecodes for .Net or JVM.
On the other hand, the FSF seems to understand that even free software developers do want to share binaries, including things like shared libraries that are intermediate steps between source code and a final program. I believe that things like CIL, JVM bytecodes, and such are here to stay, and I believe that GCC will need to do more with them, not less, in order to stay relevant. Since I think these things are important to GCC over the medium term, I will continue to encourage the FSF to accept them. I think we should be encouraging people interested in these kinds of features to be working with the GCC development community to implement them, and encouraging the FSF to accept them, rather than to push such people away. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery m...@codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713
