GCC 4.0 Status Report [2005年01月21日]

Wed Jan 26 21:30:00 GMT 2005

On Tue, 2005年01月25日 at 19:30 -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > What would it take to get gcj on the release criteria list?
>> I can't say for certain, as that is a GCC SC decision.
>> My personal opinion is that it would take a GCJ user and development 
> community rivaling the size of the GCC or G++ communities. I recognize 
> that's a pretty high bar.

I think that the GCC SC, as an agent of the FSF, must also consider the
political goals of the FSF. Based on recent FSF communications[1] I
think it's fair to say that wide deployment and adoption of a Free and
high quality implementation of the java programming language is an
important goal for the FSF. Making gcj a release critical component of
GCC is an excellent way to further that goal.
Please forward this mail to the GCC SC.
AG
[1] http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/java-trap.html