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Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 21:59 +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > >>On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:41:45PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:27 +0200, Michael Koch wrote: >>> >>>>>Lets drop support for gcj < 3.4 now (3.3 is really ancient). And only >>>>>support gcj 4.0+ after the next snapshot (0.16) next month. GCC 4.0 >>>>>isn't included in many distributions yet. Hopefully in 3 months when >>>>>0.17 comes out this won't be a problem anymore. >>>> >>>>Depending on GCJ 3.4 and up gains us nothing as 3.4 has the same inner >>>>classes bugs >>>>as 3.3 has. >>> >>>As does 4.0 probably. >>>What it gains us is less versions to test against. >> >>4.0 has some fixes in this area. 3.3 and 3.4 is the same in this area. >>Noone will do fixes for 3.4 and older anymore. When we force people to fix >>4.0 this is good. With the workarounds in classpath noone will ever fix >>the bugs. > > > I am unsure what your suggestion is. My suggestion is that we drop > support (and workarounds, if any) for gcj 3.3 starting now. And drop > support for gcj < 4.0 after 0.16. Is that acceptable or do you think > that is not agressive enough? > +1 seems like a good compromise to me. (of course I would add that to the decision page) cu Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCkxzgG9cfwmwwEtoRAtjDAJ47UqkwvwtO/j7vsLaUOQs/zhVSDgCeMVXS Oh9YdFrEzv1d4/A1cVIyku0= =QueD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath