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Re: [C++/Obj-C++ PATCH] Fix Objective-C++ breakage
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote:
>
> > I think a middle ground could be that we enable building objc++ by
> > default, but not run its testsuite unless it is specifically enabled.
>
> I'm mildly opposed, but not so much so that I would make much of an
> argument for it.
>
>
> > It certainly wouldn't be "adding hours" to everyone's test cycle.
>
> I agree. That comment was meant to refer to the possibility of adding
> all of Ada, Java, Fortran, etc. to all build/test cycles. I see
> Objective-C++ as a pretty minor issue; neither the costs nor benefits
> are terribly great. Some of the other languages are more widely used,
> but also more expensive to build/test.
Obj-C++ is certainly not a problem. Java and Fortran are already part of all
build/test cycles, libjava being a huge memory eater. Ada isn't too bad and
I tend to include it for middle-end patches (after all I can remember "ada",
but most of the time misspell obj-c++(?) as objcp or objc++(?)).
Richard.