Re: RFC: micro-libgcj merge proposal

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Per Bothner wrote:
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> > Yes, I understand.  But in the scenario where we unilaterally add
> > preprocessing, it is very likely that I am going to be doing this
> > merging. 
>
> I agree - I assume we get the pre-processing directives into the
> master classpath source.  The whole point of preprocessing is to
> have a single source base.

As far as the class libraries are concerned, I'm really not sure that 
the benefits of a single source base justify the maintenance overhead of 
preprocessing. If we are talking about something along the lines of CLDC 
vs J2SE, the differences are dramatic enough that attempting to build 
one of the other though preprocessing would quickly become very messy.

It also means, in the absence of a preprocessing standard for Java, that 
the classpath source would become incomprehensible to 3rd-party 
development tools.

Bryce