From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 10 6:40:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C5B14D28; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 06:40:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA70072; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:38:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:38:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Archie Cobbs Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. In-Reply-To: <199904100551.WAA93232@bubba.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > 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. I agree. A Java compiler in the base system would be Very Nice, especially one that compiles to NATIVE code so we can have Java without all the overhead. Sure, I vote on importing it, and maybe even enabling it by default :) > > -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 > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \__ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message