[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] RFC: A proposal to move toward using C++11 features in LLVM & Clang / bounding support for old host compilers

[Renato Golin]

On 7 November 2013 01:10, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

> I'm actually in two minds about this.  The attributes churn over the last
> year was horrendous, so I've now gone back to only tracking releases for
> some out-of-tree projects.  APIs were introduced with little thought,
> replaced, renamed, and finally stabilised, and no documentation appeared.
>  It's easier to suffer this pain once every six months than once every svn
> up.
>

Ok, this is actually more of a problem for platform compilers than LLVM
projects, I agree.


And this is VERY bad for the LLVM community, because it means that people
> who aren't LLVM developers won't be testing trunk.  They'll wait for a new
> release, then start testing if their code is broken.  We saw this with 3.3
> when there were a flurry of questions about API changes straight after the
> release.  None of these should have come as a surprise to people if they'd
> been following trunk.
>

True, I stand corrected.

--renato
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