minutes of ESC call ..., compiling HSQLDB to executable

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 07:18:08PM +0200, Noel Grandin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen
> <bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > Im getting fits thinking about the long term maintainability though.
> >
> 
> In what sense?
> It's an extra compile step and an extra dependency.
> You can even choose from ExcelsiorJET / GCC-for-java / vmkit-clang :-)

... and a completely unsupported scenario for upstream HSQLDB -- so any
interesting bug in this compiler/product combinations will be ours. The
compiler becoming unsupported will be ours. In effect we would have our own
branch of some very complex technology (compilers/translators).

Best,

Bjoern