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Re: [PATCH, libjava/classpath]: Fix overriding recipe for target 'gjdoc' build warning
- From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com>, "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:44:07 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PATCH, libjava/classpath]: Fix overriding recipe for target 'gjdoc' build warning
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On 08/11/2015 08:47 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
Jeff> It's probably time for the occasional discussion WRT dropping
Jeff> gcj/libjava from the default languages and replace them with either
Jeff> Ada or Go.
It's long past time to remove it. It's only had minimal maintenance for
years now. No one is writing new features for it or fixing bugs. There
aren't any significant users.
I've always felt I should be the one to pull the trigger. If this is
acceptable I can take a stab at preparing a patch.
I thought maybe this would also enable deleting boehm-gc, zlib, or
libffi; but I see now they all have other users in the tree now.
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about total removal, just removal from
the default languages.
In the past this has stalled on issues like how will asynch-exceptions
be tested and the like.
My inclination is to replace GCJ with Go, but Ian wasn't comfortable
with that when I suggested it a couple years ago. The other obvious
alternative is Ada -- my testing showed that using Ada would further
slow down bootstrap/regression test time which is undesirable.
I could live with either, but I'd lean towards Go.
jeff