Re: [PATCH] Delete GCJ

[Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail dot gwu dot edu>]

On 9/5/16, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> As discussed.  I think I should ask a Global reviewer to approve this
>> one.  For obvious reasons I haven't included the diffs to the deleted
>> gcc/java and libjava directories.  The whole tree, post GCJ-deletion,
>> is at svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcj/gcj-deletion-branch
>> if anyone would like to try it.
>
> And here is the patch for the web pages.
>
> Note I did not include all the removed java/* contents.  Is there
> anything particular you'd like to retain there?
>
> Gerald
>
> Index: index.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/index.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.1026
> diff -u -r1.1026 index.html
> --- index.html	25 Aug 2016 10:55:41 -0000	1.1026
> +++ index.html	5 Sep 2016 16:22:07 -0000
> @@ -15,8 +15,7 @@
>  <a href="c99status.html">C</a>,
>  <a href="projects/cxx-status.html">C++</a>,
>  Objective-C, <a href="fortran/">Fortran</a>,
> -<a href="java/">Java</a>, Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these
> -languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...).
> +Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++,...).
>  GCC was originally written as the compiler for the <a
>  href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html";>GNU operating system</a>.
>  The GNU system was developed to be 100% free software, free in the sense
> Index: style.mhtml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/style.mhtml,v
> retrieving revision 1.131
> diff -u -r1.131 style.mhtml
> --- style.mhtml	23 Aug 2016 06:49:17 -0000	1.131
> +++ style.mhtml	5 Sep 2016 16:22:08 -0000
> @@ -10,15 +10,6 @@
>    <unset-var XHTML>
>  >
>
> -;;; For the "java/" pages, we want the navigation bar.
> -
> -<if <match <get-var env::PREPROCESS_FILE> "java/[^/]*.html">
> - <group
> -  <set-var navigation>
> -  <set-var BACKPATH="../">
> - >
> ->
> -
>  ;;; Note that the <?xml...> line really needs to start in the first
> column.
>
>  <if <var-exists XHTML>
> @@ -105,26 +96,6 @@
>    <td valign="top" style="padding-left: 36px;">            <!-- nav frame
> -->
>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="10em">
>
> -  <if <match <get-var env::PREPROCESS_FILE> "java/[^/]*.html">
> -   <group
> -    <tr><td><table class="navitem" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
> -    <tr><td align="center" valign="middle">
> -    <img src="gcj.jpg" alt="GCJ" width="136" height="98" />
> -    </td></tr>
> -    <tr><td>
> -    <p>
> -    <a href="index.html">GCJ Home</a><br />
> -    <a href="../">GCC Home</a><br />
> -    <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a><br />
> -    <a href="docs.html">Documentation</a><br />
> -    <a href="contrib.html">Contributing</a><br />
> -    <a href="done.html">Done with GCJ</a><br />
> -    </p>
> -    </td></tr>
> -    </table></td></tr>
> -   >
> -  >
> -
>    <tr><td><table class="navitem" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
>    <tr><td>About GCC</td></tr>
>    <tr><td>
>


I'd think something should go under the "Caveats" section of
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html
too, so people aren't surprised.
(There was never a deprecation notice in the equivalent page for GCC
6, by the way)