On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Andrew Haley wrote: >> The vast majority of users does not need the former and the latter is >> on the verge of becoming practically irrelevant. As one datapoint, the >> entire FreeBSD Ports Collection has a single(!) port relying on GCJ. > It's not quite as irrelevant as you think: The IcedTea bootrapping > process that's used to port OpenJDK depends on gcj. The first thing > we have to do an any target is get gcj working. I'm doing that right > now.
Agreed, but how many users of GCC (even those building GCC from scratch) do have a need for our Java support? I am pretty sure it's a minority, that's why I suggest to not put everything into one large tarball but of course leave it available. Gerald