[fedora-java] Moving aot-compile-rpm and rebuild-gcj-db out of java-gcj-compat
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Thu Nov 10 11:38:45 UTC 2005
Gary Benson writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > David Walluck writes:
> > > Also, I thought aot-compile was a good script, but it was done
> > > away with. Wouldn't it make sense to bring this back and have a
> > > script that didn't rely on rpm, and then have rpm call this script
> > > instead? This way, not only other RPM-based distros, but possibly
> > > Debian or Ubuntu could even pick it up.
> >
> > aot-compile-rpm doesn't rely on RPM at all -- it's just REALLY badly
> > named! :-)
>
> Not strictly true. It does have RPM-specific bits, but they're very
> very small: 10 lines out of 436. I spoke to some of the Debian and
> Ubuntu guys at DevJam about abstracting it but that's difficult to do
> whilst it's alternatives-managed.
>
> Of course, doing this would make rpm a particularly bad home for it.
> The obvious place is in gcc itself (and aot-compile-rpm itself could
> either go there or in rpm) but that would mean being tied to gcc's
> necessarily slow release cycle.
gcc doesn't seem to be having a very slow release cycle at the moment:
we've seen GCC 4.0.2 in September, GCC 4.0.1 in July and GCC 4.0.0 in
April.
I can't see any good reason not to move aot-compile-* to gcc, with a
view eventially to make it unnecessary by folding all its functions
into gcj itself.
Andrew.
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