----- Original Message ----- > 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. > > Tom >
No, it isn't. It's still a necessity for initial bootstrapping of OpenJDK/IcedTea. By all means, disable it as a default but don't remove it. -- Andrew :) Senior Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: ed25519/35964222 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = 5132 579D D154 0ED2 3E04 C5A0 CFDA 0F9B 3596 4222 PGP Key: rsa4096/248BDC07 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07