Steven Bosscher wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Kaveh R. Ghazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Fundamentally, our philosophy has been to catch errors *before* they get >> into the repository. Sure one day of breaking the trunk isn't so bad, but >> when it breaks it affects hundreds of developers and it adds up. > > But, for languages that are not enabled by default, no-one is directly > affected except the people who might have caused the breakage, and the > people who are working on the broken part of the compiler.
They are directly affected by these errors, but they don't know: the middle-end bugs revealed by the libjava build and testing are real bugs in other languages too, they're just not detected by bootstrap & test. Andrew.
