Re: [PATCH, libjava/classpath]: Fix overriding recipe for target 'gjdoc' build warning

[Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>]

On 08/11/2015 08:47 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> 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.
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about total removal, just removal from 
the default languages.

In the past this has stalled on issues like how will asynch-exceptions 
be tested and the like.

My inclination is to replace GCJ with Go, but Ian wasn't comfortable 
with that when I suggested it a couple years ago.  The other obvious 
alternative is Ada -- my testing showed that using Ada would further 
slow down bootstrap/regression test time which is undesirable.

I could live with either, but I'd lean towards Go.

jeff