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From: Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>, Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>,
	       Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>,
	       gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, java-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, libjava/classpath]: Fix overriding recipe for target 'gjdoc' build warning
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1969327084.13363261.1440087964188.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55D5FB79.5020004@redhat.com>



----- Original Message -----
> On 08/20/2015 05:03 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > The issue is that we're still supporting a version of OpenJDK/IcedTea where
> > there is no previous version (6).
> 
> Surely OpenJDK 6 can build itself.  And in the unlikely event of an
> entirely new architecture which has No OpenJDK we'd have to grab an
> old GCJ and build it with that.
> 
> If GCJ is included as part of GCC but is not maintained and tested, it
> will soon rot.  That isn't an option IMO.
> 
> Andrew.
> 

I agree and I'm not saying keep it forever. Just give us a little time
to adapt to its removal by obsoleting now and removing it in the next
release cycle, rather than deleting it now six months before a release.

It's not just "entirely new architecture"s that have no OpenJDK, but
any system which, for whatever reason, doesn't have a binary available.

GCC follows this process of obsolescence then removal for ports (e.g. [0]).
I don't see why a language port should be any different.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-20 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-07 11:22 Uros Bizjak
2015-08-11 18:03 ` Uros Bizjak
2015-08-11 18:54   ` Jeff Law
2015-08-11 19:24     ` Andrew Haley
2015-08-11 19:34       ` Jeff Law
2015-08-12  2:48     ` Tom Tromey
2015-08-12 14:44       ` Jeff Law
2015-08-12 14:57         ` Andrew Haley
2015-08-12 16:23           ` Ian Lance Taylor
2015-08-12 16:21         ` Tom Tromey
2015-08-12 16:24           ` Ian Lance Taylor
2015-08-12 16:47             ` Jeff Law
2015-08-12 16:59               ` Ian Lance Taylor
2015-08-13 10:00               ` Richard Biener
2015-08-13 21:31                 ` Jeff Law
2015-08-14  7:44                   ` Richard Biener
2015-08-14  9:24                     ` Andrew Haley
2015-08-20  2:35       ` Andrew Hughes
2015-08-20  4:37         ` Tom Tromey
2015-08-20  8:24           ` Matthias Klose
2015-08-20  8:32             ` Andrew Haley
2015-08-20 14:57               ` Andrew Hughes
2015-08-20 15:27                 ` Andrew Haley
2015-08-20 15:47                   ` Jeff Law
2015-08-20 16:03                     ` Andrew Hughes
2015-08-20 16:08                       ` Andrew Haley
2015-08-20 16:26                         ` Andrew Hughes [this message]
2015-08-20 16:38                         ` Richard Biener
2015-08-20 16:39                           ` Andrew Haley
2015-08-20 17:35                       ` Jeff Law
2015-08-20 17:39                         ` Andrew Hughes
2015-08-20 15:52                   ` Andrew Hughes
2015-08-20 16:34                     ` Richard Biener
2015-08-20 16:59                       ` Andrew Hughes
2015-08-20 17:35                         ` Andrew Hughes
2015-08-20 18:05                           ` Richard Biener
2015-08-20 21:06                             ` Joseph Myers
2015-08-20 22:32                             ` Andrew Hughes
2015-08-24 16:39                               ` Jeff Law
2015-08-20 14:58           ` Andrew Hughes
2015-08-20  2:48   ` Andrew Hughes
2015-08-20  6:20     ` Uros Bizjak

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