[LLVMdev] 1.9 Prerelease Available for Testing

[Tanya M. Lattner]

>>>  * The llvm-1.9.tar.gz file unpacks to a dir named "llvm". Shouldn't
>>>  that be llvm-1.9?
>>
>> We have always labeled the dir just llvm which is fine. If you build
>> llvm it will know its version 1.9.
>
> I think that's missing the point.  Convention is the foo-4.2.tar unpacks
> to a directory called foo-4.2.  It's a unwelcome surprise when it
> doesn't, e.g. unpacking foo-4.1.tar and foo-4.2.tar in the same
> directory for comparision, or worse unpacking foo-4.1.tar alongside your
> llvm work directory.

No its not. While this may be convention for other projects it has not 
been for llvm. Therefore, people expect llvm to untar into an llvm 
directory. All the docs are also written as such.

> Sure, it can be worked around, but even the Linux kernel followed this
> convention in the end.  Please consider it for the future.

Since there seems to be a moving opinion towards renaming it and I 
personally don't care. It will be done.

-Tanya