Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 22:51:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. Message-ID: <199904100551.WAA93232@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <67979.923650657@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Apr 9, 99 02:37:37 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > Yeah, I'm serious, I would really like gcj+libgcj, to get java stuff > > compiled (non portably) into binaries on FreeBSD. > > 1. I agree in principle. > > 2. I'd sort of like to see a second release of this, at least, before > we start talking seriously of bringing it into -current. I predict > a rapidly changing Doppler on this target. gcj is still pretty wet behind the ears at this point. So it seems one approach would be to have it in there but by default not compiled/included (the sources are already part of egcs and so in the tree as I understand it). Then when/if it becomes more stable and loved by the world we can flip that switch to default to on. Additionally, the "libgjc" component that was just released should be made into a port for now (this is the runtime that goes with the gcj Java compiler). Longer term, I think there is enough interest in it that this combo will eventually become the most popular freeware runtime for Java. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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