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Re: GCC 4.0 Status Report [2005-01-21]
- From: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, GCJ Hackers <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:27:27 -0800
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.0 Status Report [2005-01-21]
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <200501211745.j0LHjag5017406@sirius.codesourcery.com> <m37jm1z599.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <41F70EBC.8050207@codesourcery.com>
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 19:30 -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > What would it take to get gcj on the release criteria list?
>
> I can't say for certain, as that is a GCC SC decision.
>
> My personal opinion is that it would take a GCJ user and development
> community rivaling the size of the GCC or G++ communities. I recognize
> that's a pretty high bar.
I think that the GCC SC, as an agent of the FSF, must also consider the
political goals of the FSF. Based on recent FSF communications[1] I
think it's fair to say that wide deployment and adoption of a Free and
high quality implementation of the java programming language is an
important goal for the FSF. Making gcj a release critical component of
GCC is an excellent way to further that goal.
Please forward this mail to the GCC SC.
AG
[1] http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/java-trap.html