[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] RFC: A Great Renaming of Things (or: Let's Repaint ALL the Bikesheds!)

[Albert Graef]

On 11/22/2012 12:07 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
>> While the current naming may not be the best I'm -1 for the change in
>> > general.
> Are there any serious reasons or concerns? I'm well aware that this
> will impose a cost on out-of-tree projects, but on the whole it should
> be pretty minimal and consist of some applications of 'sed'.

Well, it's a bit more serious than that if an out-of-tree project tries
to support older LLVM versions (e.g., Pure still supports all LLVM
versions >= 2.5). Alas, most popular Linux distributions still package
old LLVM versions (e.g., Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has LLVM 2.9, and this will
still be around for a long time). That's something we poor out-of-tree
projects just have to live with if we don't want to tell our users to
compile their own LLVM from source.

I've learned how to live with the frequent C++ API changes, but in any
case it would be nice if these name changes are documented meticulously
so that 3.3 doesn't become a veritable nightmare for 3rd party projects. ;-)

Albert

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