unsupporting Architecture: mips
Hi,
we have discussed the problems with mips in New York at DebConf10 last
year. I believe it is time to stop supporting Java on this architecture
because nobody really takes care of it. That is why I want to suggest
the following radical approach, which needs to be discussed with the
release team and the mips porters:
- Remove the binary packages built by openjdk-6 on mips.
- Do no longer built default-jdk/jre/... on mips.
- Keep gcj on mips but don't use it actively for building packages on
this platform.
- Remove *-jni and *-gcj packages on mips.
- Change packages that could build java code optionally to skip the Java
part on mips. Subversion is an example that has already been changed in
such a way.
And later:
- Get icedtea-7-jre-jamvm built on kfreebsd-*.
- Remove *-gcj packages on all architectures except for a minimal set of
*-gcj packages that are needed to bootstrap openjdk.
That would mean that we would no longer support Java on mips at all and
in the longer term we would use gcj only to bootstrap openjdk. What do
you think?
Cheers,
Torsten
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