[LLVMdev] llvm 2.1 announcement draft

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 21, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Tanya M. Lattner wrote:

>> The release notes mention llvm-gcc 4.2, but the prerelease only  
>> included
>> llvm-gcc 4.0. Is the final release going to include 4.0 or 4.2 or  
>> both?
>
> I will be releasing a source tar ball of llvm-gcc4.2, but we will  
> not be
> generating binaries or doing extensive testing. This is primarily  
> because
> we did not know what the state of llvm-gcc4.2 would be for the  
> release and
> did not figure it into the release plan. For LLVM 2.2, we will most  
> likely
> be treating it equal to llvm-gcc4.0.

Right.

> I do think the release notes should be reworded to indicate that
> llvm-gcc4.2 is beta only and that we did not do extensive testing.

I agree.

I strongly encourage people to just hack away at the release notes  
and commit their changes (or send a patch).  They are not even close  
to their final form, and I'd appreciate help with them :)

-Chris