Re: error building classpath with gcj 3.3.5

[Michael Koch]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:35:45AM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 21:59 +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:41:45PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:27 +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> > > > > Lets drop support for gcj < 3.4 now (3.3 is really ancient). And only
> > > > > support gcj 4.0+ after the next snapshot (0.16) next month. GCC 4.0
> > > > > isn't included in many distributions yet. Hopefully in 3 months when
> > > > > 0.17 comes out this won't be a problem anymore.
> > > > 
> > > > Depending on GCJ 3.4 and up gains us nothing as 3.4 has the same inner 
> > > > classes bugs
> > > > as 3.3 has.
> > > 
> > > As does 4.0 probably.
> > > What it gains us is less versions to test against.
> > 
> > 4.0 has some fixes in this area. 3.3 and 3.4 is the same in this area.
> > Noone will do fixes for 3.4 and older anymore. When we force people to fix
> > 4.0 this is good. With the workarounds in classpath noone will ever fix
> > the bugs.
> 
> I am unsure what your suggestion is. My suggestion is that we drop
> support (and workarounds, if any) for gcj 3.3 starting now. And drop
> support for gcj < 4.0 after 0.16. Is that acceptable or do you think
> that is not agressive enough?

I think its not aggressive enough as supporting 3.4 means 3.3 will work too
as they are the same in this area. I vote for depending on 4.0 now.


Michael
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