Re: gcj4 changes : Please Comment
I hear the arguments for providing natively compiled versions too. This looks
like it's not going to be a clear cut choice. A few thoughts:
1) There is a kind of parallel with other languages in Debian. I think of at
least python and emacs-lisp. If I understand correctly, modules in these
languages are distributed as source, and compiled to bytecode (for
optimization) on the user machine, right? What is the rationale for this
choice? Does it apply to us?
2) There is a middle ground position which would be to provide natively
compiled version of a few select applications. Eclipse comes immediately to my
mind, Daniele mentioned Tomcat. The question is, to we want that for any
single java library in Debian? If not, where do we draw the line?
Daniel
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