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Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Kaveh R. Ghazi <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>> Fundamentally, our philosophy has been to catch errors *before* they get
>> into the repository. Sure one day of breaking the trunk isn't so bad, but
>> when it breaks it affects hundreds of developers and it adds up.
>
> But, for languages that are not enabled by default, no-one is directly
> affected except the people who might have caused the breakage, and the
> people who are working on the broken part of the compiler.
They are directly affected by these errors, but they don't know: the middle-end
bugs revealed by the libjava build and testing are real bugs in other languages
too, they're just not detected by bootstrap & test.
Andrew.