On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:34:51AM -0500, Adrian Robert wrote:
On Jan 25, 2005, at 9:29 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
It may be that the Objective-C doesn't have the resources to maintain
the Objective-C front end. In that case, you are probaby out of
luck;
it's unlikely that people outside your community will maintain the
Objective-C front end gratis just to make the world a better place.
So, if you care about GNU Objective-C, you're going to want to
organize a community around that language that includes some GCC
developers.
The problem is not the nonexistence of Objective-C GCC developers, but
their being outnumbered by the C/C++ ones (who thus determine both
pace
of development and release criteria).
You are simply wrong on this point. If there were more Objective-C
developers, the problem would not come up. That's how both the Ada
and Java frontends manage.