[IMPORTANT] libgcj/gcc trees integration.

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Thu Dec 7 14:14:00 GMT 2000


>>>>> "Alex" == Alexandre Petit-Bianco <apbianco@cygnus.com> writes:

Alex> Well, some objected at using zip to build the Java class
Alex> archive. The patches makes us switch to fastjar. But maybe
Alex> you're right, we (the Java team) shouldn't take it up to us to
Alex> get rid of zip.

As long as we don't bring the zip tree into the gcc tree.  RMS
objected to zip because it is not really free software.  I don't know
the precise problem, but it doesn't matter.  We promised to replace
zip with 100% free software (fastjar) before merging trees.

Tom


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