Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-21 Thread IainS
On 21 May 2010, at 10:12, Richard Guenther wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Steven Bosscher > wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:54 PM, IainS > wrote: No Asbestos required - but .. I do have some observations.. I write pretty much all my serious (day-job) code in ObjC and.. ... I have

Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-21 Thread Richard Guenther
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:54 PM, IainS > wrote: >> No Asbestos required - but .. I do have some observations.. >> >>  I write pretty much all my serious (day-job) code in ObjC and.. >> ...  I have stated that it's an intention to make *t

Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-20 Thread Steven Bosscher
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 21:02 +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The Obj-C++ front end is effectively unmaintained, and has virtually >> no serious users. I propose to remove it from GCC. > > Maybe we could consider, for the

Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-20 Thread Steven Bosscher
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:54 PM, IainS wrote: > No Asbestos required - but .. I do have some observations.. > >  I write pretty much all my serious (day-job) code in ObjC and.. > ...  I have stated that it's an intention to make *that*, at least work at > V2 on FSF. > > Having said that: > > a)  I

Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-20 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 21:02 +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote: > Hello, > > The Obj-C++ front end is effectively unmaintained, and has virtually > no serious users. I propose to remove it from GCC. Maybe we could consider, for the putative people wanting to maintain that frontend, to make it a plugin

Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-20 Thread IainS
No Asbestos required - but .. I do have some observations.. I write pretty much all my serious (day-job) code in ObjC and.. ... I have stated that it's an intention to make *that*, at least work at V2 on FSF. Having said that: a) I have not anything like as much attachment to ObjC++ ... b

Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-20 Thread Steven Bosscher
Hello, The Obj-C++ front end is effectively unmaintained, and has virtually no serious users. I propose to remove it from GCC. Perhaps the only user of some significance is GNUstep, but they are already in an awkward position because they wish to use ObjC 2.0, and they are looking at clang for th