Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Richard Kenner
> <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.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.  Everyone
> > > separately either stops and waits, or tracks down which patch it was and
> > > reverts it so they can continue working.
> > An interesting question that I see as relevant here and for which I have no
> > data is: what percentage of the time does a patch cause an error *only*
> > in libjava?   I think you have to weigh the cost of the build of that
> > library against the number of bugs that it finds.
>
> Happened to me multiple times.
Similarly.

> The thing to tackle is to make libjava build more parallel.
I think this applies across the board, including the testsuites.

jeff