From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: java-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete GCJ
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 08:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b34b7571-9f85-2244-d5f1-1e694f366ea3@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF1jjLvRrnKKD7HZdDrjcgc827MatXXxA1S43cGvo80a7=GNfw@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/09/16 12:59, NightStrike wrote:
> Could we at least reach out and see if there's someone else who could
> be the maintainer? I noticed gcj patches recently, so there's still
> interest.
1. It's too late. We have been discussing this for a long time, and
we're now doing what we decided.
2. Maintaining GCJ requires a lot of knowledge of both Java and GCC
internals. There are very few people in the world with that
knowledge, and I'm fairly sure I know them by name.
3. The Classpath library is very old and is unmaintained. The only
practical way to update GCJ would be to use the OpenJDK class
libraries instead, but updating GCJ to use those class libraries is a
very substantial job.
So, I cannot prevent anyone from coming along to maintain GCJ, and
neither would I want to. However, such a proposal would have to be
credible. It is a multi-engineer-year commitment, and not just any
ordinary engineers.
Andrew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-11 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-05 15:13 Andrew Haley
2016-09-05 15:29 ` Matthias Klose
2016-09-05 15:31 ` Andrew Haley
2016-09-05 18:37 ` Eric Gallager
2016-09-05 18:47 ` Andrew Haley
2016-09-05 15:32 ` Matthew Fortune
2016-09-05 15:34 ` Andrew Haley
[not found] ` <FB08E20B-5ED1-45BA-BFA0-11E7807840D2@gmail.com>
2016-09-05 16:17 ` Andrew Haley
2016-09-06 9:06 ` Richard Biener
2016-09-06 9:08 ` Jakub Jelinek
2016-09-06 21:18 ` Jeff Law
2016-09-07 11:41 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2016-09-09 11:03 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2016-09-05 16:26 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2016-09-05 16:30 ` Andrew Haley
2016-09-05 18:40 ` Eric Gallager
2016-09-30 15:34 ` Andrew Haley
2017-01-22 16:51 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2017-01-22 17:17 ` Per Bothner
2017-01-22 18:41 ` Per Bothner
2017-01-23 9:01 ` Andrew Haley
2017-01-23 9:05 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-01-23 12:52 ` Per Bothner
2017-01-23 13:42 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-01-23 14:51 ` Andrew Haley
2017-01-22 18:36 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2016-09-10 12:00 ` NightStrike
2016-09-11 8:25 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2016-09-19 15:26 ` Andrew Hughes
2016-10-03 23:12 ` Matthias Klose
2016-10-04 8:40 ` Rainer Orth
2016-10-04 8:41 ` Andrew Haley
2016-10-04 17:23 ` Mike Stump
2016-10-04 17:25 ` Andrew Pinski
2016-10-04 18:40 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-10-05 16:28 ` Jeff Law
[not found] ` <2b5de569-1efd-f407-49c2-c9fa84cc5315@ubuntu.com>
2016-10-06 16:16 ` Matthias Klose
2016-10-06 16:43 ` Rainer Orth
2016-10-06 16:47 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-10-06 16:54 ` Matthias Klose
2016-10-06 16:56 ` Rainer Orth
2016-10-06 17:10 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-10-06 18:01 ` Mike Stump
2016-10-06 23:59 ` Matthias Klose
2016-10-07 8:31 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-10-10 4:03 ` Matthias Klose
2016-10-10 7:58 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-11-20 20:42 ` Matthias Klose
2016-11-21 5:34 ` Sandra Loosemore
2016-11-21 10:24 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-11-21 12:57 ` Matthias Klose
2016-11-21 16:23 ` Sandra Loosemore
2016-11-21 16:40 ` Matthias Klose
2016-11-21 17:16 ` Peter Bergner
2016-11-21 17:16 ` Rainer Orth
2016-11-21 23:23 ` Matthias Klose
2016-11-22 17:13 ` Sandra Loosemore
2016-11-29 21:23 ` Jeff Law
2016-11-30 1:11 ` Remove stray '@' from install.texi (was Re: [PATCH] Delete GCJ) David Malcolm
2016-11-30 1:20 ` Sandra Loosemore
2016-11-30 1:26 ` David Malcolm
2016-09-05 22:49 [PATCH] Delete GCJ Bernd Edlinger
2016-09-06 0:20 ` Eric Gallager
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