Re: libobjc2 release?

[Pete French]

> libobjc2 is GPL3 + runtime exception, and the current policy for FreeBSD
> is no GPLv3 stuff in base at all.  It is most likely that sometime
> around FreeBSD 9, libobjc will be removed from the base system entirely
> (nothing in the base system uses it, so it's not a huge loss) and people
> using ObjC stuff will just install their favourite runtime from ports.

Ah, OK - thats actually an improvement I think, much like when they decided
to remove perl from the base system. I did see somewhere that there was
a project to ditch all of GCC and replace it with clang in the base system
too, which would be nice.

-pete.