Re: PATCH: gcc-3.1/criteria.html

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

--On Thursday, March 28, 2002 05:50:58 PM -0700 Tom Tromey 
<tromey@redhat.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
>
> Gerald> Updates throughout the GCC 3.1 release criteria. Java is now a
> Gerald> critical language
>
> That's great!  And I don't really want to look a gift horse in the
> mouth, but I must ask: how did this decision come about?  I ask
> because I've been doing a lot of work on getting gcj ready for the 3.1
> release; in fact it's all I've done for the last couple weeks.  I'd
> like to be in the loop for decisions like this (and furthermore I
> think that's a reasonable request).

I apologize; Gerald and I certainly meant no slight!  What happenned
was that Gerald pointed out that Java was no longer a "new language"
as it was in GCC 3.0, and that we should therefore treat it just like
the others.  I agreed with that, and thought that had already been
discussed.

The impact of this on the Java team is that when we get to the point
where changes require my explicit approval, that will apply to Java
as well.  However, the flip side is that if we're having Java problems,
we'll treat those as just as big a priority as C/C++/Fortran problems.

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