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Re: Patch: Remove fastjar

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
Per Bothner wrote:
One could argue it's a cleanup: We remove some code duplication.

Yeah, I agree with that - a Java implementation of jar would be better. But, surely the removal of fastjar should follow once a replacement is ready. 

Stallman might reasonably argue that removing fastjar provides motivation
to do the job.  And we're not really "removing" fastjar; we're making
it an external dependency - the way (say) ar is.  Logically jar doesn't
belong in gcc any more than ar does - at least not as long as fastjar
doesn't make use of gcc headers or libraries.  A rewritten jar that is
just a thin wrapper over java.util.jar *might* be a different matter.
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