From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 90714 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2015 02:35:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact java-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 90687 invoked by uid 89); 20 Aug 2015 02:35:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mx4-phx2.redhat.com Received: from mx4-phx2.redhat.com (HELO mx4-phx2.redhat.com) (209.132.183.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 02:35:01 +0000 Received: from zmail17.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (zmail17.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.83.19]) by mx4-phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t7K2Z0cR029667; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:35:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 02:35:00 -0000 From: Andrew Hughes To: Tom Tromey Cc: Jeff Law , Uros Bizjak , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, java-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Andrew Haley Message-ID: <141970419.12686720.1440038099721.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <87mvxxdxys.fsf@tromey.com> References: <55CA44C8.7000209@redhat.com> <87mvxxdxys.fsf@tromey.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH, libjava/classpath]: Fix overriding recipe for target 'gjdoc' build warning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00018.txt.bz2 ----- Original Message ----- > Jeff> It's probably time for the occasional discussion WRT dropping > Jeff> gcj/libjava from the default languages and replace them with either > Jeff> Ada or Go. > > It's long past time to remove it. It's only had minimal maintenance for > years now. No one is writing new features for it or fixing bugs. There > aren't any significant users. > > I've always felt I should be the one to pull the trigger. If this is > acceptable I can take a stab at preparing a patch. > > I thought maybe this would also enable deleting boehm-gc, zlib, or > libffi; but I see now they all have other users in the tree now. > > Tom > No, it isn't. It's still a necessity for initial bootstrapping of OpenJDK/IcedTea. By all means, disable it as a default but don't remove it. -- Andrew :) Senior Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: ed25519/35964222 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = 5132 579D D154 0ED2 3E04 C5A0 CFDA 0F9B 3596 4222 PGP Key: rsa4096/248BDC07 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07