RFC: micro-libgcj merge proposal

Fri Jan 13 22:24:00 GMT 2006

>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay@redhat.com> writes:

Bryce> As far as the class libraries are concerned, I'm really not sure that
Bryce> the benefits of a single source base justify the maintenance overhead
Bryce> of preprocessing. If we are talking about something along the lines of
Bryce> CLDC vs J2SE, the differences are dramatic enough that attempting to
Bryce> build one of the other though preprocessing would quickly become very
Bryce> messy.
I think there is an empirical question here -- which approach costs
less in which development scenarios. Not that we know the answer :-)
But it doesn't strike me as a sure thing in either direction.
Bryce> It also means, in the absence of a preprocessing standard for Java,
Bryce> that the classpath source would become incomprehensible to 3rd-party
Bryce> development tools.
Per's solution neatly avoids this. Though the question of
comprehensibility to developers is still open :-)
Another question I have in this area: what is the viability, or not,
of post-processing instead of pre-processing?
Tom