On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > > So instead of proposing that we just remove Java from the default languags, > I propose that we replace Java with Go.
I'm certainly in favor of removing Java from the set of default languages. I'm less sure about adding Go. Right now Go does not build on a range of targets, notably including Windows, MacOS, AIX, and most embedded systems. We would have to disable it by default on targets that are not supported, which is straightforward (we already have rules to disable java on targets it does not support). But to the extent that there are options like -fnon-call-exceptions that are tested primarily by Java and Go, we would get less coverage of those options, since we would not test them on systems that Java supports but Go does not. More seriously, the Go sources live in a separate repository, and are copied to the GCC repo. In practice this means that when Go breaks, it can't be fixed until I am online to fix it. I don't think it would be good for GCC for a bootstrap break to depend on me. Of course we could change the rules somewhat, and let people commit changes to the Go parts of the GCC repo which I would then have to copy out. But it's something to think about. Ian
