Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

[Richard Kenner]

> 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.