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Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
> Fundamentally, our philosophy has been to catch errors *before* they get
> into the repository. Sure one day of breaking the trunk isn't so bad, but
> when it breaks it affects hundreds of developers and it adds up. Everyone
> separately either stops and waits, or tracks down which patch it was and
> reverts it so they can continue working.
An interesting question that I see as relevant here and for which I have no
data is: what percentage of the time does a patch cause an error *only*
in libjava? I think you have to weigh the cost of the build of that
library against the number of bugs that it finds.