On Fri 06 May 2016 11:05, Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> writes: > But given that even OCaml includes a binary blob (!), I don't think that > we can practically require bootstrapped language implementations to > bootstrap all the way.
To clarify! Obviously it would be better from a reproducibility POV if we had fewer root binary blobs. I don't mean to argue against that. Just that the tradeoff between "include OCaml and its world" and "always bootstrap only from GCC" in the short term leans towards inclusion rather than purity. Just my POV though. A