[fedora-java] Re: Toddler question : Scala package maintainer

[Andrew Haley]

Harshad wrote:
> Andrew Overholt wrote:
> 
>>> Is pre-compiled to byte-code considered pristine enough? ;)
>> Haha, no :)
> 
> I thought so :)
> 
> But, the scala compiler is implemented in the scala language. This would
> mean cyclic dependencies (?) 

No, there's no need for that.  The Scala build will need a Scala compiler;
that's no different from gcc, which is written in C.  So, the bootstrap
Scala package will need pre-compiled bytecode, but we won't release that.

Andrew.