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Re: [RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages
- From: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Alec Teal <a dot teal at warwick dot ac dot uk>, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:00:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/13/2013 12:37 PM, Richard Biener wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/13/2013 11:29 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 11/13/2013 10:56 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
>>>>>> At least we don't need a Java source code frontend, no? Just keeping
>>>>>> the bytecode compiler and GIJ should be enough? That way we can
>>>>>> strip the classpath copy of everything that isn't needed, thus not
>>>>>> provide a Java library. Reduces testing coverage of GCJ to almost
>>>>>> zero, but ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Eh? We don't even have a Java source code frontend. In a GCC
>>>>> build we compile everything from bytecode.
>>>>
>>>> Don't we drop in ecj.jar and compile that to native code? Ah, seems to
>>>> be an optional feature. Which means only very little pieces of libgcj should
>>>> be required to bootstrap if we remove that feature without also dropping
>>>> in a classpath.jar?
>>>
>>> I don't get it. If you want not to build libgcj in bootstrap, don't
>>> build it. But there's no need to mess about like this.
>>
>> I also want to reduce repository size by removing parts of (or you
>> say all of?) classpath, retaining only those portions we need for
>> bootstrap & regtest.
>
> Really? Wouldn't it make more sense for people to check out what they
> need? Is this a mayor issue?
It was one of the major complaints we received when dropping the
split of the distributed tarballs, that is, no more gcc-core-4.8.2.tar.bz2.
libjava is roughly half of the whole source tarball ...
But I don't know much about the libjava setup to say if making classpath
external would even work.
Richard.
> Andrew.
>
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