[cfe-dev] Renaming

Mike Stump mrs at apple.com
Mon Mar 23 15:34:43 PDT 2009


On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:
> As recently threatened, I am going to rename things and shuffle a  
> few things around in the source tree this evening. These are the  
> changes I plan to make:
>
> 1. Rename the clang compiler executable (currently 'clang') to  
> 'clang-cc'; rewrite all the test cases to call clang-cc instead of  
> clang.
>
> 2. Move clang/Driver to clang/tools/clang-cc (to match the name, and  
> llvm, and not be confusingly named Driver).
>
> 3. Change clang-driver to be called 'clang'. I plan to leave it in  
> tools/driver because clang is pretty ambiguous, but I will move it  
> to tools/clang if someone argues for it being inconsistent.
>
> 4. Change clang-cc to be installed in 'libexec/clang/', and update  
> the driver to look for it there.
>
> 5. Do nothing with ccc. There are still a few details to iron out  
> and testing to be done on the new driver; I expect to keep ccc  
> around for another week or so.
>
> OK?

Sounds reasonable to me.



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